I remember growing up with something that looked vaguely similar. My mother had a tandoor oven in the garden which she used to cook naan bread.
Im Asian and wondering if the people that built this may have been the first Asians that emigrated to UK. In those days it was traditional to have a tandoor oven in the garden, not because we couldn’t afford gas but naan bread tasted much nicer cooked this way on coals.
Some people had had them built into the ground and others had round ones with a hole for ventilation and to poke the coals around. It could be a tandoor oven that’s been turned upside down and has embedded onto the bricks over the years, then painted to look like a garden feature. Just a thought 🤷♀️
In that case it should be a restoration project and not a demolition job ... imagine the fantastic 'cook outs' (can't really say BBQ) and a Blue Plaque on the house wall commemorating the arrival of Asian Home Cooking in the UK ... a TV programme with the wonderful Cyrus Todiwalla maybe?
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The problem is that a tandoor would need holes to get things in and out and this doesn't, or didn't before james smashed the vent out. I think bee hive or similar is the best guess so far. One where the person wasn't interested in the honey. Maybe the owners before James didn't like bees so blocked up the vent. They hated bees but liked painted concrete barrels as garden features. Perfectly normal behaviour
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I'm assuming that if it's a tandoor it's been stored upside down in the garden between uses to keep the inside bone dry ... if the 'effin bricks' are removed are we left with a hole leading to a hollow oven ... ?
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Im with Dove, I think its been filled in with rubble, I bet there is a hollow for dropping the coals in. Grill for ventilation. Turned upside down and painted as a beautiful Objet'd'art. Have you probed inside the bricks James?
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Im Asian and wondering if the people that built this may have been the first Asians that emigrated to UK. In those days it was traditional to have a tandoor oven in the garden, not because we couldn’t afford gas but naan bread tasted much nicer cooked this way on coals.
Some people had had them built into the ground and others had round ones with a hole for ventilation and to poke the coals around. It could be a tandoor oven that’s been turned upside down and has embedded onto the bricks over the years, then painted to look like a garden feature. Just a thought 🤷♀️
These are the new models that are available these days.
https://youtu.be/TQcAd3LAG70
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
This came up in a search for "homemade concrete tandoor".
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.