I'm not sure why this is so hard, since Victorian fireplaces seem to be fairly standardised, but we cannot find a grate easily for what we believe is the original fireplace in our ~1860 ex-mine-manager's house.
It's a 16" as far as I understand these things, the front hooks on with metal pins and the grate is missing; it was retrofitted with a gas-fire and the grate lost presumably. Th biggest issue is the thing is so shallow. Only 12.5cm from the line joining the two side-bars (will post images from my phone hopefully in a sec). But ~40cm wide at the front, ~20cm wide at the back.
The other fireplaces in the house are seemingly period too but all are ornamental... they tend to have curved front bars rather than straight like ours and just more space somehow. But the bars and grates are welded or concreted in place so we can't easily 'borrow' one.
I thought this was going to be a 5min job - but a grate, drop it in and go (we had the chimney swept and tested and removed the gas fire). So what's going on? The only thing I found that's close online is this:
https://www.thefiresideshop.co.uk/fire-grates/paris-fire-grate.html#.WdwA9BNSyY1
It's a 16" as far as I understand these things, the front hooks on with metal pins and the grate is missing; it was retrofitted with a gas-fire and the grate lost presumably. Th biggest issue is the thing is so shallow. Only 12.5cm from the line joining the two side-bars (will post images from my phone hopefully in a sec). But ~40cm wide at the front, ~20cm wide at the back.
The other fireplaces in the house are seemingly period too but all are ornamental... they tend to have curved front bars rather than straight like ours and just more space somehow. But the bars and grates are welded or concreted in place so we can't easily 'borrow' one.
I thought this was going to be a 5min job - but a grate, drop it in and go (we had the chimney swept and tested and removed the gas fire). So what's going on? The only thing I found that's close online is this:
https://www.thefiresideshop.co.uk/fire-grates/paris-fire-grate.html#.WdwA9BNSyY1