Remove the rest of the fireplace?

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Hi All,

Wanted some advice please..

I've knocked the front off the fireplace wanted to know if i should take the brick out as well.. there seems to be a surrounding where i have taken the plaster off. would like to take it all back make the room bigger..

All so any ideas what the hole in the floor was used for? a bit of a draft coming through it.

Cheers

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It would be intresting to know!

First time Ihave seen it.

can you go a floor below and see where it goes?

Maybe it was just a route of disposing burnt coal stuff?
 
Hi Ibby

There is no basement, it is a little cottage in derbyshire, i have never seen it before, i dug down a bit it has brick around it but has been filled with rubble by somebody..


I thought it might be a coal storage? be nice to hear if anyone has seen this before?

do you think i could remove the brick and take it back?... i am not sure if this was a later edition.

Thanks
 
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Cheers cotswoldbuilders,

would they of lit the fire over it to draw the air through it?

do you know by the image if i could remove the brick... would it be a large fireplace originally?

Thanks
 
If the fireplace has been bricked up to hold a smaller fire,
shine a light up their and check.

If it gets wider, it was bigger.
 
Have a look up the opening and see whats above the insert brick opening, I would have thought the small brick opening has been added afterwards, it would look a lot nicer opened up to the original opening.
You would have a fire grate above the air intake, might even be a plate to slide over to control the air flow.
 
Cheers cotswoldbuilders,

there were a couple of pieces of metal been put in the air intake.. which i thought might be a some sort of lid to it..

thanks for your advice... i have had a look up and it is wider as you said i think it would look much better to... the brick does not look great!

i'll knock it out and lets see... fingers crossed hey :)

Cheers
 

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