Looking at second hand houses and saw this. As per title does anybody know what this is?
It’s right on the firs floor, right below the immersion.

https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1f1srp7

Posted by Mescalin3

45 Comments

  1. It is a larger & old house? May be a lift for food to be moved from the cooks to the dining room.

  2. Rude-Guitar-478 on

    I saw a movie one time where some people found a little hidden doorway in an office building that turned out to be a portal into John Malkovich’s brain. I’m guessing it’s probably something like that.

  3. Is it a kind of metal? Looks painted or something in the pic, the light reflections are the same at different aspects. Strange that the knobs are uneven as well….

  4. Constant-Committee51 on

    Is that filter material at the bottom? Can you remove it? Or could it be a speaker? Are those two dials? My random guesses are an air filter system or a radio

  5. irish_ninja_wte on

    Ask the current owners. The estate agent should already have the answer if you’re not the first to ask.

  6. The house might be heated by electric warm air. If the rooms have vents in the walls that’s what it will be. The heating unit. I grew up up in a house in the UK that had it. My Dad would never let us turn it on.

  7. Are there vents in the rooms? It could be an old hot air heating system, but it would need to be burning oil or gas to work. Any other doors or covers you can open?

  8. It’s an old air central heating system. Ducts tun from it under the floorboards. You’ll find low level wall vents in rooms or they’ll be in the floorboards and a flue from the top of that through the hot press, attic and roof

  9. Trans-Europe_Express on

    Could it be an old storage heater? They had two dials one for how much to heat up and one for how quick to push it out.

  10. EnbyGremlinAsh on

    Posting this on r/whatisthisthing might be a good idea. People are quite informative on there!

  11. Mundane_Character365 on

    Looking at the filtery looking thing at the bottom of it, and that it was covered up with cardboard (I guess to keep out a draught), I would guess it’s some kind of air heater.

  12. Ventilation system, Dumb waiter, Laundry chute?

    Please view the property and let us know.

  13. It’s the missing link ancestor of all immersion heaters that creationists don’t want you to find!

  14. Zealousideal-Fly6908 on

    You wanna know what’s behind this door?

    *Nods head*

    You don’t wanna know what’s behind this door

    *Nods head*

  15. Air central heating unit. Were popular in the 60s-80s, warm air was blown through ducting to vents in the rooms, usually in the floor or skirting boards.

  16. GERIKO_STORMHEART on

    In my 40s and this is the first time I have ever heard the term…. “second hand” when talking about a house. I’m not mocking… just find it interesting 🤣

  17. That’s an old warm air central heating system. They were a thing in the 1960s and 70s

  18. Oh it also looks like an old storage heater. They were installed in the 70s and has two controls – input and output.