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Thanks for the suggestion noseal. Would it be a soot door that far away from the place the fire was? I figured soot doors would be behind the chimney or have direct access to a soot tray or the flue itself? I don’t know about this stuff though! It wasn’t a back boiler when we moved in, but...

I have a mid-60s-build house in the UK, at the front of the property at (spanning) the Damp proof course level, there's a small metal cover plate (approx. dimensions are 1 brick wide and two bricks tall). None of the neighbours seem to know what it is for, and I can't remove it to see what it is...