A tall stove against original barn stone

Barns make some of the best stove rooms there are, and some of the most demanding installations. There is usually no chimney, so the flue system is designed from scratch; the spaces are tall and open, so the stove must be sized to a volume far bigger than the floor area suggests; and the fabric is often a mix of old stone and new insulation that changes how the room holds heat. Every one of those questions is answered on the survey before anything is ordered.

A clean-lined Scandinavian stove like the Contura 620 suits converted agricultural buildings especially well: tall, slim and contemporary enough to sit comfortably against old stone without pretending to be old itself.

In a conversion, the twin-wall flue system is the engineering heart of the job: routed internally through the roof or up an outside wall, supported and fire-stopped at every level, weathered at the penetration and terminated high enough to draw cleanly. Designed well, the visible flue becomes part of the architecture; designed casually, no stove on earth can burn properly beneath it.

The finished installation is commissioned, certificated and notified to Building Control like every job we complete, and the owner gets a stove that lights easily in a building that never had a fireplace at all.

Earby sits near Skipton, west of our core Leeds-to-Scarborough corridor, and this install is the evidence of how we treat the edge of the map: if the project is right, we travel. Our regular ground runs from Leeds and Ilkley eastward, and Wharfedale connects naturally toward Skipton and Craven for conversion projects like this one.

If you are converting a barn anywhere on our patch, the cheapest time to involve us is before the plans are fixed, when the flue route can be designed in rather than negotiated around finished rooms.