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I've just seen the lintel that has gone in above what will be a double front door but the doors are set back a little so not directly above.

There are 3 courses of bricks on the lintel and then a wooden framed window, followed by a few more courses of bricks upto the roof line. This is not a load baring wall as the internal timber stud work is taking the weight due to the age of the property.

I attach photos of the lintel. It's an L-shaped lintel.

I'm no expert but my gut is telling me this lintel will not support what is going above, especially with such a wide span.

 

Any thoughts?

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Catnic ANG2100 SWL is 7kN so around 700kg. There is 50kg of bricks there, the window fixings will take some of the window load and I’d expect another lintel at the top for the last few courses. 
 

Seems fairly reasonable to me unless the window is very heavy. At about 2m square there is around 80kg of glass in the units plus another 80-100kg max of timber. 

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