Moving internal wall attached to chimney

[OuterSpaceHopper]

Moving internal wall attached to chimney

I have a chimney column(double brick) in the middle of my house. In the upstairs bedrooms, there are 2 wardrobes (one facing each room) between the 2 bedrooms formed by walls attached to the chimney.

I'd like to move one wardrobe wall to block up(with a stud wall) one of the wardrobes in one bedroom and create a large alcove in place of the 2 wardrobes in the other bedroom.

In the attached drawing, I want to remove the red walls and build a stud wall on the green line where wardrobe door currently is.

The walls are made of skinny 55mm wide cinder block built directly on the floor boards.
The stub front wall of the wardrobe I wish to remove is toothed(i.e. alternate bricks) into the chimney when the house was built.
Will this wall be offering any support to the chimney, or can I just remove it by cutting the cider bricks off at the chimney edge?

None of the walls I which to remove appear to be touching the loft joists, so I don't think the walls are offering any support to the loft.

Any advice on what I should look out for before getting started gratefully received!

Or should I really be getting advice from an engineer before I take the wall down?
It is a fully repaired Wates house if that makes any difference.

Thanks!

 

[Alex Flesch]

Hi mate did you have any luck with this? I am looking at doing the same we are currently in the process of having our house repaired and want to make the same changes to even out the room sizes.

 

[Alex Flesch]

Ours is also a wates prc house.