Big & bold, Hergom Stoves is the latest addition to our stove roster

As a rule, Britain’s houses are getting better-insulated and their rooms are getting smaller, hence the trend over the last decade for woodburners to correspondingly shrink in size and output. Many of the larger models from well-known brands have simply disappeared from the market.

However, as with all trends, averages occlude the many exceptions. Especially in rural areas like here in the New Forest, there are still plenty of old houses with big, draughty rooms and it can sometimes be hard to find a stove with the stature, presence and output to satisfy the requirements and expectations of customers with a large space to heat and an imprinted cultural memory of the stoves of yesteryear.

We’ve been on the lookout for a large, robust, yet technology-forward stove to fill that gap. If you know about stoves, the gap we perceived was roughly the shape of a Vermont Castings Vigilant or maybe an old Jotul – preferably cast-iron, heavy, robust, shapely and subtly ornamental but that wouldn’t look out of place in a mountain redoubt. Something that will keep granny warm in a storm when the wind’s blowing snow through the gaps under the door, whilst also being Ecodesign-compliant, clean-burning, and equipped with a large glass window that will stay clear as a bell for a magnificent view of the fire within.

Hergom ticks the boxes. A Spanish manufacturer, they’ve been building magnificent stoves since 1972. Unashamed advocates of cast-iron (in an industry that has predominantly tilted to steel), their stoves are unapologetically outsize and robust, ornate without being twee, and pack a serious wallop in terms of heat output. And if aspects of their design are suggestive, to the savvy observer, of a Franklinesque trans-Atlantic influence, this might be because Hergom have been operating and manufacturing in North America since the eighties, where their stoves are sold under the brand Hearthstone.

We’ve installed a couple of Hergoms so far, where they have been the perfect functional and aesthetic solution to our customers' requirements. We currently have two of their models on display – the elegant Craftsbury and the classical, functional and more contemporary E-30M.

For more information and a downloadable brochure, have a look at our new Hergom Stove page: https://www.newforestfires.co.uk/hergom-stove-in-new-forest