Things found in the house
You can just see the brown cable disappearing into a hole in the wall at the far right of the picture. I've since remove the two cable ties to get the full length of the black cable, and re-routed the white cable you can see at the top down through the bricks (you can see this in the next picture).
Normally there's a black slab on top of this lot; to get the (previously undiscovered) plug into the socket you'd have to leave a gap the width of the cable. The cable then runs out the bottom of the brickwork, under the fireplace and back into the brickwork on the other side, inside which:
I think I'll rescue the four-block, which assuming I don't want to engage in bricklaying will mean wiring a plug for the first time in comfortably over a decade.
The painting's going pretty quickly so far.
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