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Notice the typical shape of this former shop entrance with its window at the side of the door frame. Above, jutting out of the wall, is the back of the household oven. Inside the house, access to the oven would usually be under the mantelpiece.
The oven would be built into a side wall of the chimney, but this was sometimes not thick enough for the size of the oven and the solution was to build it jutting out from the outside wall.