Posted by  Richard Haut on December 31, 2001 at 00:50:03:

In Reply to:  Re: Dual Fireplace Idea posted by Paul Malo on December 30, 2001 at 14:48:20:

I seem to remember rooms with two fireplaces - in larger Victorian houses. I presume that both worked and were there because of the sheer scale of the rooms.

As I recall, they were at each end of a room. Some houses, such as Victorian rectories, tended to have very large rooms. My favourite example was one near Oxford which had a room measuring some twenty foot by eighteen foot as the toilet, rather like a throne in the centre of the room. The main feature of these houses was how cold they were.

Who lit them ? The servants of course.

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