This metal door is set into a farm wall, just outside the farmhouse. It’s about eighteen inches to two foot wide and about twelve inches tall. It’s not big enough for a farmer to leave produce in to be picked up by someone, far too small for milk churns, and there’s not much room for eggs or butter or whatever else the farm might be selling… It seems a bit big for deliveries such as letters, however. I wonder if it could be deliveries of groceries, the sort of things a farm might not produce itself… There is no lock, but maybe in the days when it was made it wasn’t necessary to be so security conscious, but would protect whatever it is from birds, animals, pests or vermin. There’s nothing written on it,and I couldn’t go round the other side of the wall to see what the other side was like.
WRITER
Lois Elsden 
There should have been a big chimney on the other side.
I’m sure that looks like a smoking cover.
LikeLike
It was just in a wall – nothing on the other side… Maybe it had been for a fire, or an oven but they had used it here for something else.
LikeLike
It was put there so people like you would ponder about it or maybe it kept the demons from hell from getting out. Better off left alone I’d say!
LikeLike
I think that’s a much better story than what I now think is the actual answer – apparently it is a bread oven – they were outside the house, or in this case farm – I don’t know if it was in case of fire… but two different people have told me that’s what it is – one even has one in a wall in his garden!
LikeLike
I think I’ll put one in my computer room as my wife keeps playing wth the thernostat. Can’t go to the YMCA today as a foot of snow and freezing rain. Where’s the global warming &*%&^
LikeLiked by 1 person