@smithb@aus.social
I'm doing some home renovations, and I'm baffled by this one: Why would the bottom 1.2m of an interior wall be made of brick? The rest of the house is a pretty straightforward 1948 single storey timber framed structure. The only other brick I've found in this whole building are the two chimneys (lounge and kitchen) and 3 columns from what was once clearly a patio, now an additional room.
I'm a structural engineer, but I'm baffled and curious with this one - why would just the bottom third of an interior wall be made of brick?
perhaps some kind of low accent wall or shelf in a previous incarnation of the house? Outer patio fence that was included into the interior during an addition?
I've since uncovered a bit more around the wall, and it looks like the same hardwood timber framing around the brick as exists in all the other original parts of the house. Maybe a very early reno, or maybe there was an even earlier structure of some kind here, that was partially incorporated into this one? This particular wall is not load bearing (ceiling joists run parallel to it), so it would've been easy to make early changes to it.
