British Fires New Forest 650 Inset Electric Fire

The New Forest 650 is the square one, and that format is its whole argument: at 654mm by 654mm it fills a chimney breast or a compact feature wall the way a portrait painting fills a frame. It suits smaller sitting rooms, snugs and bedrooms where the landscape fires would be too wide, and its deep log bed gives it a realism the size does not prepare you for.

It needs a 150mm recess, the shallowest in the New Forest range, so it can be built into an existing chimney breast without deep excavation. We form the opening, run a concealed fused spur with a qualified electrician where needed, and finish the reveal so the fire sits flush. The choice of Signature logs or hand-finished Deluxe Real Logs is made at order.

The rest of the New Forest family is landscape: the 870 is the next step where you want width, and the sizes run up to the 2400 for full media walls. The 650 is the only square, so if the space is taller than it is wide, the decision usually makes itself. Its price also makes it the gentlest entry into British Fires quality.

The square format was made for the chimney breasts of the corridor: we can set a 650 into a period breast in a Leeds or York terrace and keep the original proportions of the room. Fully electric, so there is no flue, no sweep and no smoke control question.