Any idea what this is?

[Mudball]

This little plate is on the external wall which could have been a chimney. The stack disappears into the wall and there is nothing on the other side (there is a wall perpendicular to it on the other side).. I am curious what is inside ... any idea on how to open it?

 

[GreiginFife]

Not sure what it is, possibly an access point for the chimney.
Looks like a 1/4" square ratchet bar will open it though. (Or a square drive of similar nature)

 

[Fade and Die]

This little plate is on the external wall which could have been a chimney. The stack disappears into the wall and there is nothing on the other side (there is a wall perpendicular to it on the other side).. I am curious what is inside ... any idea on how to open it?
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It’s a soot door for cleaning the chimney.

 

[Mudball]

It’s a soot door for cleaning the chimney.

Really.. not sure how my boy will fit thru that...

 

[chrisd]

Really.. not sure how my boy will fit thru that...

Time to talk to the wife about having another child then ?

 

[NearHull]

My sister usEd to own a house with a similar door. It was to gain access to the living room fire grate to clean out the ashes from the outside. Saved a lot of potential mess inside.

 

[Mudball]

My sister usEd to own a house with a similar door. It was to gain access to the living room fire grate to clean out the ashes from the outside. Saved a lot of potential mess inside.

Ours is too small for ashes also it’s about 6 feet up the wall and we don’t have a fire place at that end of the house.
I am assuming F&D is right about it being a soot cleaning door.
Haven’t found a square rachet in the garage yet to open it

 

[Fade and Die]

Ours is too small for ashes also it’s about 6 feet up the wall and we don’t have a fire place at that end of the house.
I am assuming F&D is right about it being a soot cleaning door.
Haven’t found a square rachet in the garage yet to open it

if your curious a large flat screwdriver jammed in diagonally will normally do. Careful though it could be full!

edit. This add explains what soot door are....

https://www.debrettfires.co.uk/product/9-x-9-soot-door-matt-black/

 

[Slime]

Really.. not sure how my boy will fit thru that...

Liquidise him first, then pour him through the little square hole in the plate.

 

[williamalex1]

My sister usEd to own a house with a similar door. It was to gain access to the living room fire grate to clean out the ashes from the outside. Saved a lot of potential mess inside.

Time to talk to the wife about having another child then ?

Pity I just sold my Sooty and Sweep puppet set, a guy took them of my hands for a tenner

 

[rulefan]

My sister usEd to own a house with a similar door. It was to gain access to the living room fire grate to clean out the ashes from the outside. Saved a lot of potential mess inside.

We had such a 'ash door' in our first house. It was a Baxi Burnall coal fire with an ash pit sunk into the floor below the basket. Outside was a door for emptying the ash without having to let the fire go out.

 

[Liverbirdie]

A priest hole?

 

[backwoodsman]

Or the back door into Narnia?

 

[anotherdouble]

A priest hole?

If that’s a priest hole, it’s a good job I am not a man of the cloth on the run then?

 

[Liverbirdie]

If that’s a priest hole, it’s a good job I am not a man of the cloth on the run then?

Same here, mate, I may get one leg in, like.