On 2/21/2019 9:17 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
On 2/21/19 9:08 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
Is it under a chimney, or was it at one time? It looks like a
clean-out door.

May have been, I'll have to look.

Remedies?


Is/Was there a fireplace above it? It's an ash cleanout (at least
that's what the door was designed for. AFAIK, it would NOT be used for
any fuel other than wood.

Definitely not a coal chute. Those always were mounted to the outside
wall allowing for coal to be dumped (typically from canvas sacks in the
city) into the coal bin located in the basement. Dimensions on a coal
chute door were roughly 20" x 16"