Largest fireplace in the UK?

[Lucan]

This is one I am building at the moment not the biggest I'am sure. It measures just over 8 ft by 5ft, the beam I milled from an oak from my own land.

 

Hi Ash1, out of interest did you have to kiln dry the beam or apply any treatment to it? Cheers

[ash1]

Hi Lucan

The oak tree had fallen 8 years before I milled it and it was still very wet.It has been another 4 years since using it as the beam for the Inglenook. Having said that I would have used it straight away if I had needed it 4 years earlier.

I have just used a French oak beam, green, on another fireplace with a stove installed, in a Barn with minimal shrinkage and movement although that is only 9 x 5 inches 6 feet long.