The house of three chimneys

I read once that chimneys were a sign of wealth back in the day as it would indicate that you have resources to keep the hearths burning. So in England they used to sometimes add fake chimneys that were there to show off but also as a design element to balance the properties out visually.

As per my previous post we now had out of order kitchen cooker. The long horizontal flue had been removed and new chimney had to be built. Directly above the kitchen is master bedroom and despite hoping to find unobtrusive solution it is kind of hard to hide a stack that is more than 7 meters high. So it had to be taken through our bedroom creating a column pretty much in the middle of it! We approached it in a very scientific way of my mother pretending to be chimney stack and sending me photos of how it would look. This is where you need pretty good visualization skills.

Placing chimney in the kitchen would have left the chimney too much on the way in the bedroom so it was decided that it will go to our future office on the other side of internal lime stone wall. Specialists were called in to drill a 200mm hole for the flue. My brother cut away floor boards to pour concrete base for it. We were pleased to see that floors are insulated. Note here that all floors across the house were already laid when we bought it. We had no knowledge of the structure, insulation or what infrastructure is embedded into it. This is mystery to this day, all we know there are central heating pipes somewhere...

Location fixed, a hole was cut in office ceiling/bedroom floor to take the chimney though. Again surprises there. Very little insulation between so sound will travel pretty well in the house, fixing this would cost far too much for it was just left as is.

Due to time outside temperatures dropping the chimney was only built part way with plan of taking it through the roof and finishing in the spring once the mortar can cure in warmer temperatures.

Kitchen cooker was out of order for the whole duration of winter until one warm spring day a third chimney magically appeared on the roof. I say magically as we were not aware that the stove setter/potter (not fully sure of the correct name in English) was going to do that as of yet. He had access to the building so got it done during his gap in other works. Going back to the beginning, no show off here, no fakes just bare necessity and compliance.