Explore your options for the best wood-burning stoves

As winter drawing near, many of us are stacking our split timber blocks and ordering pellets

Aduro hybrid wood-burning stove, from €4,845. 2kW-9kW firewood (max 400mm log length), 2kW-9kW pellets (15kg hopper). Suppliers include Pellet Kings.

Electric central heating based on heat pumps may be touted as the future, but for now, combustion stoves remain popular for both space and whole-house central heating. With winter drawing near, many of us are stacking our split timber blocks in outbuildings, calling in the sweep, ordering pellets and getting ready for the dusty chores surrounding our stoves and fires.

Before exploring the latest, all-wood hybrids, let’s look at what each type of stove offers in both a free-standing and insert stove. When choosing a stove by fuel type, we’re faced with carbon-neutral wood and biomass wood pellets or the new generation of smokeless fossil fuels including anthracite.