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Yes the hollow is soot free and it is on the ground floor so it can't be another flue. The fireplace is on a solid floor though the rest of the room is floor boards with a void underneath. So presumably support would need to be added where the current inner skin of bricks are, as it appears...

I want to widen a fireplace opening that I have revealed to accommodate a wood burning stove. The brick 'legs' of the fire place are hollow right through to next door's side of the chimney breast. What options do I have here. Please find attached photo's of fireplace.