thank you! Do you a wardrobe either side but ending 50cm from the chimney breast would look ok? Can’t quite decide but thinking that I do like a bedside table of some sort!

Not sure if this is possible, but how about built in wardrobes with niches accessible from the sides, adjacent to the bed? This would reduce the area in the wardrobe available for full-length hanging, but would you need that anyway?
(Not managing to describe this very well, and don't have the skills to illustrate it, sorry!)

Thank you. Do you mean built in niches that are next to the bed and lower bridge the gap between the wardrobe and the chimney breast?!

Peckadoodle, no, not that, but that could work! What I meant was something like this, which is a front view of wardrobe with doors open. The niche would be closed from the front, ie no access from inside the wardrobe, but open to the side by the bed. It could have a light inside it. Have not drawn it to any sort of scale, just to illustrate the idea. Saw something similar on Houzz somewhere a while ago.
The wardrobe doors would just look like a normal wardrobe.
(Just as a comment, I love the idea if lights inside wardrobes too, wish I had them.)

Oh I understand! Thank you! That’s definitely a thought. It’s very tricky as whatever we build, it’s got to be low enough to open the beam too. It’s been a nightmare Whjch we’ve wanted to do for a few years. However this year there’s been been a HUGE wasps nest behind it (1m long by 60cm high!!!) and so it‘s speeded up the process as we wanted to get rid of that too!

Looks a lovely space, the chimney stack and the beam are beautiful, but I can see they would be tricky.
As to wasp nests, we had great fun (!) when a workman drilled up through a soffit board into a nest in the eaves last summer. A loft full of angry wasps is not what you want!

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