Rounded ceiling/wall join - What is this?

NutterzUK

NutterzUK

NutterzUK

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Hi,

I am looking at removing this at some point and really have no idea what it is. We are looking to move into the property (we don't own it yet).

Why is the corner of the room rounded in such a way? Any ideas how hard it would be to make the corners of the room straight? There is no funny or low roofs or reason it should be there structurally.

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Could be just some massive coving to go with other "rounded" features - like round door arcs or rounded furniture they used to have?
 
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The only easy way I can think of hiding it would be to stud the window wall out a little, that all depends on whether you can afford to lose the space in the room.

Why do you want to lose it ?
 
Usually something is there for a reason.
Is it in every room, these rounded corners or just that one, get in the attic & have a look at the eaves.

Do your neighbour(s) have the same curve ceilings?

And why do you want to lose it ?
 
You could have a poke around by cutting a small hole enough to see but small enough to easily patch up there may be a beam or bottom of rafters and plate there.

I have seen a concrete cantilever plate that sit on the brickwork that the rafters sit on, could be this, have you got any external pictures?

I would assume it contains asbestos before smashing it about.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/guidance/a28.pdf
 
I think it's either a case of boxing it out or living with it. I've never seen that as a style feature.
 
Of course in the 19th century features like this were considered desirable (Particularly in Hospitals)

The rounding off the edges and corners in rooms made them much easier to keep clean!
 
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Unfortunately I think you are correct. It's like this in just the upstairs rooms on the front and back, so I'm pretty sure it's a "live with it" situation. It's fine, not really a big problem. I wanted to make the corners square if possible but we will just have to live with it :).

Thanks for your advise!
 
NutterzUK said:
Unfortunately I think you are correct. It's like this in just the upstairs rooms on the front and back, so I'm pretty sure it's a "live with it" situation. It's fine, not really a big problem. I wanted to make the corners square if possible but we will just have to live with it :).
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A few extra brick courses above the 1st floor windows would have avoid the problem.:(
 
This is how the previous owners of our house did it...

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Our ceiling are fairly high though, its a 1930s build but they are quite high even for that period.
 
I have this too, the reason I suspect is to do with the fact the block of houses are built on a slope
yet the roofline remains the same from the outside to all of the houses.
However interior floor levels and ceiling heights do change due to the slope on site and that curve
was just a way of dealing with this in an effort to keep the exterior roofline uniform.
 
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