About Us and Meet The Team
Founded in 2009 by Mark and Gill, based in the beautiful countryside of Devon, England, Salamander Stoves is a family-run business specialising in the manufacturing and design of our high quality flagship stove, the Hobbit.
With over 20 years of experience in dealing with a wide range of antique, modern and contemporary stoves, we have carefully brought this knowledge to bear in the design of our own cast iron multi-fuel stove. Our aim is to provide you with a high quality stove that will give you years of long, trouble-free service, and every stove is hand-finished, fettled and inspected at our Devon workshop.
At Salamander Stoves, we recognised the need for a cast iron stove with a smaller footprint, and the demand for a small stove which offered the same benefits as a large, efficient wood burner. Our Hobbit multi-fuel stove achieves this, presenting itself as a high quality, compact, yet affordable stove, whilst being traditionally and elegantly styled to fit with every style of decor and interior design.
Designing stoves for over 15 years
Although the Hobbit was originally designed to fit small household fireplaces in order to avoid removing original Victorian and Edwardian tiles or cast fire surrounds, due to the continued growth of the small spaces movement over the last 15 years, our stove has found its home in a diverse array of incredible small spaces.
We are extremely proud to now have over 20,000 of our little stoves installed in small household fireplaces, cabins, horse boxes, shepherds’ huts, canal boats, camper vans and more, providing light and warmth to thousands of tiny homes and dwellings! Our Hobbit stove is now Eco Design approved, which makes it suitable for any installation that’s going to take place after the 1st of January 2022. You can visit our Eco Design page to read more about this release.
To make the installation process easier, we’ve also designed a wide range of flue kits which are specifically tailored to each of these different structures. These installation kits include everything you will need to fit your small stove, and most of our flue parts are manufactured by Midtherm.
After the success of our Hobbit multi-fuel stove, we developed our larger Little Range Cook Stove, which offers the same benefits as our classic Hobbit stove combined with a substantially increased cooking potential.
Please feel free to contact us to discuss your unique project and to find out how you could include a Hobbit stove or Little Range Cook Stove in the design of your house or tiny home! We also offer a bespoke flue consultancy service free of charge, so you are more than welcome to get in touch if you would like any advice regarding what flue parts you will require or how your flue system should be arranged.
Also, don’t forget to check out our range of case studies to discover how other people have incorporated our small stoves into the design of their project!
Meet the team
Here at Salamander Stoves, we are a small team all working really closely together. Our office and workshop are nestled in Mark and Gill’s back garden which is abundant with polytunnels and veggie patches full of home-grown fruits and vegetables tended to by Gill, and Mark has his own pottery shed where he makes all sorts of beautiful ceramic pieces. Family is at the core of Salamander Stoves, we are not just an ordinary business, we are a Salamander family!
Mark and Gill
Stove Designer and Co-Founders
Salamander Stoves started when Mark recognised a gap in the market for small stoves with a small footprint for small spaces, and from there the Hobbit was born! Mark is the inventor and entrepreneur behind the business, and the stoves he has created are his absolute pride and joy. As the business kept growing and the popularity of the Hobbit Stove was expanding, Gill then retired from teaching to join the family business to take on the office side of things. Wind forward 15 years and Mark and Gill have now taken a step back from the main comings and goings of HQ to enjoy their retirement together as they now have a fantastic solid team behind them.
The Office Team
Grace, Katie, Sarah and Cheryl and Hobnob
If you call our office, you will always speak to one of these lovely ladies! Grace, the daughter of Mark and Gill, is the office manager and flue technician and designer. Starting 9 years ago learning everything from her mum and dad, she knows the business inside out and is the glue that holds it all together. Katie is our social media guru and content creator, and you will most likely always find her with her camera out! Sarah is the newest member of the team and is a star with all things admin, tea making and we can always rely on her to bring in a Friday treat for us all. Cheryl has been at Salamander Stoves for 10 years now and greets us with her wonderful presence every Tuesday helping out with general office bits and bobs. And of course there is Hobnob the Hobbit Stove dog who arrives with Grace every day for his hard day at work watching the chickens in the garden, lots of back scratches and being fed yummy treats!
The Workshop Team
Chris, Nigel, Alan, Pete, Simon, Lindsay and Danny
Our Salamander workshop team are the lovely lads that fettle all of the stoves! The work they do is incredibly thorough and precise, each stove is carefully put together and quality checked to ensure perfection before dispatch. Our main workshop sits next to the office in the garden and it is run by workshop manager Chris, nothing is too much trouble for him and we massively appreciate him! Nigel and Alan have been working at Salamander Stoves since the beginning, so they have seen the business change and evolve since day one. Pete has been working with the business for many years now, and is always the first to crack a joke or be the wind up merchant! Simon and Lindsay, our ‘Heathfield Hobbiters’, manage our unit in Heathfield where we dispatch the larger trade orders, and Danny is the newest member of the team who will usually arrive to work after a swim in the sea! Having a reliable workshop team is an integral part of our business, and we are grateful for each and every one of them and their in-depth knowledge of the stove construction.