We are renovating an old 19th-century stone house in Skåne.
When we were replastering and repairing walls in one of the rooms, we removed a built-in wooden "shelf" that was in the heart wall. On the other side of that wall in the adjacent room is the chimney.
What we found behind the built-in wooden shelf was very strange... A large cavity surrounding the chimney. To the left of where the wooden shelf was, there is a safe. The most puzzling part is the protruding brick construction that extends from the chimney and connects to the right interior wall.
It can be seen in the attached picture as the ceiling in the safe and above if you look into the hole after the wooden shelf.
Does anyone have a clue about its function? Its dimensions are 27cm deep x 40cm high and it runs between the chimney and the interior wall to the right of the safe.
Could it be one of the "protruding wings" mentioned in some of the threads here on the forum? It tilts the wrong way to have been a connecting flue...
It should be noted that the whole house was elevated in the 1950s.
When we were replastering and repairing walls in one of the rooms, we removed a built-in wooden "shelf" that was in the heart wall. On the other side of that wall in the adjacent room is the chimney.
What we found behind the built-in wooden shelf was very strange... A large cavity surrounding the chimney. To the left of where the wooden shelf was, there is a safe. The most puzzling part is the protruding brick construction that extends from the chimney and connects to the right interior wall.
It can be seen in the attached picture as the ceiling in the safe and above if you look into the hole after the wooden shelf.
Does anyone have a clue about its function? Its dimensions are 27cm deep x 40cm high and it runs between the chimney and the interior wall to the right of the safe.
Could it be one of the "protruding wings" mentioned in some of the threads here on the forum? It tilts the wrong way to have been a connecting flue...
It should be noted that the whole house was elevated in the 1950s.
