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Thanks for everyone's advice. I'll try and remove some more plaster tonight and see if I can find a lintel. I'll take a photo and post it here. I guess if I do find a lintel it should be OK to remove the bricks beneath it. I didn't realise there were building regs relating to wood burners...

@ theoldun That sounds promising. I guess it would be fairly obvious there is a lintel there then when I remove more of the plaster?

Basically I want to remove the fireplace and install a wood burning stove. I was hoping the original lintel would still be in place since removing it doesn't seem to make sense. Having looked around the net, I've seen a few images of Victorian chimneys where the arched lintel is fairly...

Hey all, glad I found this forum! I'm just in the process of removing the open fire from our living room. I've remove the fire surround etc and I'm trying to establish if/where the original lintel is. Here is a photo: So far, as hopefully is clear from the photo, there is just a...