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I mentioned earlier<\/a> the space within the central chimney complex in our house. The description we were given of it \u2014 as a ‘hidey hole’ \u2014 hardly does it justice, and it would have been a pretty sooty place to hide. It is a glorious smoking chamber with probably 40 to 50 wrought nails in four or five ranks, allowing meats etc. to hang freely as the walls taper, first to a peak ridge, then further up the main flue where the backs of some of the second-floor flues are visible. Here are two views:<\/p>\n

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I haven’t been as far up it as I’d like (need better lights and some sort of short ladder). <\/p>\n

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The big, overexposed lump here is the back of the central baking oven which opens out into the kitchen fireplace. The fire is kindled in front of it; you can see the crazed, blackened parging at bottom left here where the fires lived. I haven’t yet photographed the corncobs among the debris. I’d love to do a drawing that does justice to this whole chimney system. I wonder when this smokehouse was last fired up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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