Hello,
We are doing some investigations before we plan a new kitchen.
We have an old listed 19th century Yorkshire stone cottage and are looking to expose the fireplaces where these are original or interesting and could work as a feature and see how we can plan our space around these.
we have had someone in today to take some plaster off the wall to try and see whether we could find a fireplace. We started with the plaster at the top to find out if there was a wall put in right across the width of the kitchen or whether they had just bricked up the alcoves. It turns out there were all bricks across and at the top these were loose so we pulled them out and found what’s in the photos.
Looking at the pics, I’m not sure what we’ve discovered. To me is looks too messy to be a chimney breast (and I’d assumed that anything original would be Yorkshire stone anyway as that’s what our main fireplace is inside and out.) and it just looks like a pile of quickly filled bricks with a sloping piece of flagging but what do other people think, please?
We are doing some investigations before we plan a new kitchen.
We have an old listed 19th century Yorkshire stone cottage and are looking to expose the fireplaces where these are original or interesting and could work as a feature and see how we can plan our space around these.
we have had someone in today to take some plaster off the wall to try and see whether we could find a fireplace. We started with the plaster at the top to find out if there was a wall put in right across the width of the kitchen or whether they had just bricked up the alcoves. It turns out there were all bricks across and at the top these were loose so we pulled them out and found what’s in the photos.
Looking at the pics, I’m not sure what we’ve discovered. To me is looks too messy to be a chimney breast (and I’d assumed that anything original would be Yorkshire stone anyway as that’s what our main fireplace is inside and out.) and it just looks like a pile of quickly filled bricks with a sloping piece of flagging but what do other people think, please?
