Maybe some kind of spoof cupboards were fitted in some houses to look like
the place is bigger?


Brian

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There's a knob - like a doorknob - attached to the wall on each side
of the fireplace in my Victorian house. Anyone know what they were
for? Attaching a fireguard perhaps?

The fireplace in Alice Through The Looking Glass has similar ones:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Aliceroom3.jpg

-- Richard