hanpadge
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Hi I’m hoping you can resolve this mystery for me. I have been drilling the cement render off the stone walls of my downstairs bathroom and today came across a brick section that had been put in quite roughly at a later date. At the bottom of the section I uncovered a couple of pieces of slate shielding the bottom of a pipe. It is bell shaped at the bottom, made of some sort of early plastic which is thick and black. It goes some way up but looks like it just ends at the top somewhere in the wall. I’m attaching images of it.
For context this is a small Welsh stone workers cottage c.1850. The wall in question is part of a later extension c.1900 or earlier with 50cm thick stone walls throughout. I believe the wall would have been the end wall of the kitchen when the pipe was inlaid into the wall, not a bathroom as it is now. I think that the walls are rubble filled.
Does anyone know what this pipe would have been for? I was going to lime wash the stone but will have to lime plaster over this section instead and will likely leave it all in place.
Thanks in advance
For context this is a small Welsh stone workers cottage c.1850. The wall in question is part of a later extension c.1900 or earlier with 50cm thick stone walls throughout. I believe the wall would have been the end wall of the kitchen when the pipe was inlaid into the wall, not a bathroom as it is now. I think that the walls are rubble filled.
Does anyone know what this pipe would have been for? I was going to lime wash the stone but will have to lime plaster over this section instead and will likely leave it all in place.
Thanks in advance