Help! What have we uncovered?

Wes121708

The extension has been there for many years, way before the previous owner so no idea about the extension apart from it being a piece of crap! 
I think we'll attempt to take a bit from the other side as this should show us if there is a lintel or not which I'm assuming there is as the wall has so much more  thickness compared to the bricks/rubble/frame/whatever else they had lying around. Also there isn't anything underneath this monstrosity apart from the frame which surely can't be holding up the house above it!

Wes121708

twopenny said:

Vgood thought Silvercar. 
Coal store door used to be outside for obvs reeasons but pantry or in my old houuse, toilet off the kitchen.
Indoor facility downstairs very trendy in the 50s.

We still have the lovely bathroom off the back of what was the kitchen but that's another story!
We have an outhouse which has the coal shed next to it.

FreeBear

Wes121708 said: I think we'll attempt to take a bit from the other side as this should show us if there is a lintel or not which I'm assuming there is

It is unwise to assume anything, particularly with an old building. You may find there is a concrete beam spanning each opening that supports the (original) inner leaf, and it is just a prayer and door framing supporting the outer leaf. Knocking out the bit of wall between the two openings should not be attempted until you know that there is a lintel in place spanning the full width (rather than just two short ones) and you have sought the advice of a structural engineer.