Hanging Beam requirement

Hi All,
This is my first post (of what could be many) requesting some advice.
I am just going through the purchase of a 1915 timber cottage in Perth and my pre-purchase structural report has indicated that the hanging beam in the ceiling is "overspanned" / "under designed".

I will call a few builders to get a price to rectify but I was just wanting to put it to the forum to see if anyone had a similar issue, is it a common issue, and how they fixed it.

The original house was the std 4 room central hallway cottage built at the time. total width is about 9m.

Thanks in Advance

Anthony


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