Hi,

I live in a converted georgian house, with a neighbour above me. The
side of the house has two chimney breasts, one in the living room and
one in the kitchen, running up an external wall. The external wall is
flat on the outside - no sign of the chimney at all. Obviously the
chminey breasts run up into my neighbour's flat above.

I've been thinking about redoing the kitchen, and ideally I'd like to
get rid of the chimney breast altogether and run a worktop and units all
the way along the wall. Failing that, I'd like to knock the front off
the chimney breast, so that only the sidewalls remained, and use the
space inside for a cooker and units (it's quite wide and would make the
kitchen quite a bit bigger).

Is this at all possible, or would it require some serious extra
structural work to stabilise/run the risk of the house falling down? I
don't want to spend too long thinking about it if it's practically
impossible!

Thanks for any help!

Miles