Columns

An interesting extension in a road near us. Interesting in the sense that I have never seen round columns used in such a way before.

Outside the new wall, they will presumably be left exposed and painted in the completed extension. Is the idea for there to be an outdoor passage on the left hand side? Is the heavy steel work going to support a first storey which is bigger than the ground floor, after the way of the Elizabethans making the most of their crowded town plots?

We await developments.