You mean until the plumber came in and chopped it in half!Looks like they have been supported for the past 100 years, correctly or not!
the beam underneath is a wood beam - situated between two brick walls. by the looks of it the house was extended and this is the resultHard to tell without details of the beam underneath, but given the depth of those leveling strips then possibly not.
no ideas who the builders
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