At some point that lintel would have spanned an opening and a wall would have supported the right hand end, they just took the wall away and left this :doh , Rick
Have to fit that steel tomorrow (Friday) as been told floor layers are starting Monday and our acrows are in the way, lads been busy roofing today, new roof now water tight, pics later
Steel in place, when Dave was cutting it he complained the metal cutting disk I supplied was not very good, I took no notice, but when we got it up on one side and needed to slide over to rest on the other wall it bound and we could not move it, so I decided to drill it and insert a pin in order to get a lever on it, blunted two cobalt drills straight away and never did drill it right through, so turns out it is high tensile steel