Corner Fireplace

[kenebbage]

We have recently moved to a 400 year old thatched cottage and are novices at period properties.

In a corner of the main room is a chimney that is in a dangerous condition and needs to be rebuilt. Under the chimney, the corner of the room is just a blank diagonal wall. While the chimney is being restored, we thought it might be nice to reinstate a fireplace underneath, perhaps with a wood burning stove.

While we might get some clues on what was originally there once we remove the wall, does anyone have any idea what an original corner fireplace might have looked like, or even why it was in a corner? The next room has a traditional inglenook fireplace.

Ken

 

[Jellyfire]

Welcome to the forum Ken, it sometimes takes a few days for a new members first post to be approved and appear on the forum, so just bumping you up to the top again.

We have a similarly aged thatched cottage, only inglenooks though so can't offer advice on corner fireplaces I'm afraid. If you post a few photos It might give people a better idea of what would be there (we love photos on here, as you'll no doubt find out from subsequent posters requesting them!) my guess would be behind that diagonal wall will be the fireplace anyway. Also whereabouts in the country are you, as that will give an indication of the type of fireplace that would likely be there?

 

[Moo]

I know nothing about the architecture of corner fireplaces, but I don't believe they're that uncommon (have dim memories of pictures of same).

 

[Moo]

PS

Try googling "corner fireplaces" - you'll find hundreds of examples, though most of them seem to be modern.

 

[agbagb]

A few thoughts /questions. Would it have been there originally? What was the room used for when it was added? Could it have a for a "copper" water heater, these where often in corners.

 

[robgil]

Photos often tell a thousand words.
My cottage , built around 1520 has an inglenook in the corner. Doesnt inglennnok roughly translate as fire in the corner?