Posted by Mike Field on October 30, 2008 at 22:50:15 user mikefield.
In Reply to: Re: Beckfoot layout posted by Adam Quinan on October 30, 2008 at 20:16:53:
Out here we have rooms in older houses sharing back-to-back fireplaces, with separate flues running up a single chimney. In bigger houses where fireplaces where share a common chimney, the fireplaces are often centrally located on an inner wall. This would almost always be the case with a living-room or dining-room (or drawing-room,) and also for bedrooms where those rooms are reasonably large. In smaller bedrooms the fireplaces are quite likely to be placed diagonally across the corner on an outside wall -- but still back-to-back and still sharing a single chimney.
As for the kitchen fireplace at Beckfoot, this drawing has always seemed to me to be a probably quite a good model -- ovens each side of an open fire, a hook and/or rail (or crane, or both) for hanging pots or a kettle on, and a warming oven above one of the main ones. Maybe a plate-warming rack above the other oven too, who knows?
Kitchen ranges in Australia are more likely to be like the one at the link, with the fire enclosed in a firebox.
