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Hobbit Stove

Compact, efficient and high quality. The Hobbit stove is a small cast iron multi-fuel stove designed for small spaces and magical places.

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Little Range Cookstove

The Little Range delivers all of the same great features as the Hobbit stove, with the added benefits of a larger stainless steel cooktop and a good-sized oven.

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FAQs

Wood burning stoves are perfectly safe if installed and used correctly. You can also have your stove regularly serviced and cleaned by a professional for added peace of mind.

Other safety tips include:

  • Ensuring your stove has been installed properly by a professional. You can find your nearest recommended installer on our authorised dealers page.
  • Ensuring that your stove is installed in accordance with the relevant safety distances. You can also choose to fit your stove with heat shields, and you can read more about this option here.
  • Ensuring that your fire has an adequate air supply for combustion and ventilation.
  • Ensuring your space has working smoke alarms and carbon monoxide alarms.
  • Avoiding the use or storage of aerosols near the appliance whilst it is lit or still hot.
  • Supervising young children and pets, and installing a fireguard if necessary.
  • Never using gasoline, kerosene, charcoal lighter fluid, wrapping paper, or other highly flammable substances, to start or rekindle your fire.

Wood burning stoves boast exceptional energy efficiency ratings, making them a fantastic option for heating your home or space. Good quality stoves should be around 80% efficient, meaning that 80% of the heat emitted from the stove is being used to heat the room.

Wood is also a renewable and sustainable type of fuel. If we continue to plant more trees, then burning wood has the potential to be a carbon-neutral/carbon-negative source of energy for many generations to come.

We also fund the planting of three trees for every stove that we sell, and 20% of every Hobbit stove is made from recycled cast iron. You can read more about this on the page for our tree planting scheme.

We do not carry out any fittings ourselves, but we have an extensive network of suppliers and installers across the UK who can provide you with excellent advice and assistance regarding the purchase and installation of your Hobbit Stove, Hobbit SE, or your Little Range Cook Stove.

For more information about fitting your stove, have a look at our authorised dealers page for a list of our recommended stockists and installers. You can also find some useful documents in our help section. If you have any questions about your installation, then do not hesitate to contact us.

Yes, our stoves are very fuel efficient. The Hobbit Eco small stove by Salamander Stoves is a small cast iron multi-fuel stove that can burn wood, coal, or eco logs. Our Hobbit stove fully complies with the 2022 Eco Design regulations, and it features an improved centre grate for better multi-fuel capability.

To meet the 2022 Eco Design regulations, Salamander Stoves have increased the efficiency of our small multi-fuel stoves to over 81%, and we have also reduced the particulate and gas emissions. The Hobbit SE has also passed the HETAS Cleaner Choice Scheme.

Our wood burning stoves are optimised for environmental sustainability, and they fully comply with the 2022 Eco Design regulations – the stove industry’s response to the DEFRA Clean Air Strategy, which aims to reduce emissions and pollution, as well as improve air quality.

20% of every Hobbit stove at Salamander Stoves is made from recycled cast iron. The Hobbit SE has also passed the HETAS Cleaner Choice Scheme, and we are working hard to remove all plastic from our packaging.

As a way to give back to our planet, Salamander Stoves are also partnered with TreeSisters, a UK-registered Bristol-based reforestation and social change charity. For every Hobbit stove or Little Range purchased, we fund the planting of three trees at no extra cost to our customers.

For more information about sustainability at Salamander Stoves, have a look at our Hobbit Eco stove. You can also read more about our tree planting scheme, the 2022 Eco Design regulations, and the HETAS Cleaner Choice Scheme.

Our small stoves are ideal for tight spaces where a larger stove might not fit. The Hobbit stove will make a great addition to any shed, garage, cabin, conservatory or summerhouse. Take a look through our case studies and our installation kits to see how you could incorporate our stove into the design of your project!

The small stoves at Salamander Stoves are certainly powerful, despite their size! Our Hobbit Eco stove boasts efficiency ratings of 81.4%, and it can provide 4.1kW of efficient, clean burning heat for your space.

This is the nominal output. For example, the Hobbit SE has a lowest tested output of 3kW, and a highest tested output of 5.6kW, so this is the type of range that you can expect from this appliance.

At Salamander Stoves, our stoves are engineered from high-quality cast iron – 20% of which is made from recycled iron. We also offer a number of stove extras and colours, so you’ll be able to customise your stove to your personal taste.

High quality small stoves, hand-finished in our Devon workshop

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Salamander Stoves is a family-run business founded in 2009 and based in the beautiful countryside of Devon, England.

We specialise in the manufacturing and design of our high quality flagship stove the Hobbit, as well as our Little Range Cookstove. We have over 18 years of experience in dealing with a diverse array of antique, modern and contemporary stoves, and each and every one of our little wood burners is hand-finished, fettled and inspected at our Devon workshop. Our Hobbit stove is now Eco Design approved for 2022.

Our philosophy is simple – to provide our customers with a top quality, well-designed product at a competitive price, which is backed up by excellent customer service.

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Small Stove Review 9

Our Hobbit Stove Has Been Fitted!

“We had a Hobbit stove fitted this week by Alex Reay from Flues and Fires, and I just wanted to get in touch to say it is AMAZING and we love it! We have a lovely cast iron tiled fireplace which I was desperate not to lose when we installed a small wood burning stove, but until I found the Hobbit on Google, everyone told me it would be impossible to keep the fire surround. The Hobbit is perfect – not only does it fit very snugly, but it looks fantastic and the blue door complements the tiles very nicely. We are sitting enjoying a fire now and absolutely loving it! Thanks for creating such an amazing product.”
Nicola Williams
Small Stove Review 10

The Best Stove Ever!

“It’s the best stove ever! It’s easy to light, very efficient, burns anthracite and stays in overnight (ours has been in for three weeks now). It even keeps a kettle of water at the ready for a cuppa! What more can I say, we love it! Just the thing to make our Yorkshire home cosy, and the cat loves it too!”
Lynn and Andrew, West Yorkshire
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A Huge Thank You!

“Dear Mark and Gill, a huge thank you for designing and making the Hobbit stove! We had two different London-based fireplace companies tell us that we simply had to knock out the old cast iron and tile fireplace to fit in a woodburning stove, and that there was no other option! Then we found you online. We are delighted with our little Hobbit, which swallows up logs and kicks out a good amount of heat. Perfect for the winter! I will also be writing to the London-based fireplace companies to put the Hobbit on their radar. Best wishes.”
Nat
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First Small Stove Installation

Was looking for a small stove for my first self-install. Found Mark very helpful. Knowledgeable, friendly service. Stove burns well and generates lots more heat than the previous open fire. What is not to like?
Sam
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Delighted with our Hobbit Stove!

“Mark, Gill, thank you for your assistance, we are delighted with our Hobbit! I fired it up this evening after taking all afternoon making a register plate to fit the opening.”
Alan
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Can't speak highly enough about the stove & staff at Salamander Stoves.The product is first class as is customer service.A quality UK stove that is built to last.

Bazzar Deane
Bazzar Deane October 16, 2024
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Great product, lovely useful item, arrived quickly and well packaged 📦 highly recommended

Jules Taylor
Jules Taylor October 15, 2024
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We were advised that Salamander Stoves had created the perfect stove to fit into our Victorian fireplace. We ordered one, it was on its way, and then it wasn't! I rang Salamander and explained that we had a team and a date to fit the stove! They were surprised to hear that the stove had not arrived with the courier company, but arranged for another Hobbit to arrive in time for the fitting date. We now have the perfect arrangement and no longer a draught down the chimney. Strangely the missing stove arrived back at Salamander - unpacked! I am so grateful that this company honoured our order and we are able to be snug this winter.

Jane Soans
Jane Soans October 7, 2024
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