A questioner said:
What is this iron thing installed into the wall of my late-Victorian house?
This small (10cm wide) possibly iron flower like thing is about 1m above ground. My house is in North West England and was built in the 1890s, it is a former shop, and this is on the side wall (i.e. away from what was the shop entrance). There is no visible outlet on the inside.
ome of the answers here:
- It’s a hose bib handle someone used as an air vent by mortaring it in. The contemporary equivalent would be an “Air Brick” – the purpose is to prevent condensation from building up in the void between the outer brick and the inner layers of the wall, leading to the breakdown of the mortar. Given the climate of England, preventing dampness in wall voids is important. Given the history of England in the last century, it’s likely someone had to be handy in a time of scarcity, and improvised in a clever way.
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