Grandest fire we've had for a while, from a collapsing but once very grand house. We thought at first it was a pine and gesso surround but it appears to be carved wood (except possibly the circular ca...

From the south side of Edinburgh and set up just after we took it out, hence it's looking a little grubby still. reasonable size that would suit a smallish living room, it has the odd mark here and th...

Not a pattern I've seen before and if Robert Adam had designed combination fireplaces, they would probably look like this, covered with urns, swags and flute like instruments. Very pretty. 13 1...

fairly delicate yet with a decent aperture, this is the sort of fire surround that has come out of a more modest sized living room from anywhere between 1860 and 1900. Couple of small chips to the far...

Our marble fire surrounds generally have little corbels under the shelf, but this one is as simple as can be, no frills at all. It came from a property built in the 1860's and is shown with an arched ...

Nice simple pine surround of the type found in poor tenements to grand houses and from the 1800's to 1900 shown with a late Georgian square insert which I think suits it nicely. Its a bedroom insert r...

We recently bought 2 van loads of fireplaces from the Borders which included 3 like this one, now fully restored (thought alas one of them requires some serious work). About as pretty a little fire as...

A very nice one this. It came from a very grand house down near Jedburgh and now that its been sand blasted I can safely say that I don't think I've ever seen such fine casting in a piece of iron, it ...

Rather a heavily varnished surround we bought from Rutherglen a while ago. Its a type of pine that doesn't strip well, so it would be best to leave it as it is or paint it, dating to around 1900. The ...

Rather a nice fire surround from the 1890's which I hand stripped during the lockdown in my garden. Its a most unusual colour, mainly a fairly warm brown but with streaks of crimson running through it...

This surround came from a little cottage near Montrose and seemed a bit grand for its location, being quite ornate and of course, mahogany, though its fairly old as evidenced by having a patch where t...

Typical Victorian fire surround (also late Georgian really) in yellow pine shown with a good arched insert that we've had extended to be 41 inches sq which has an 18 inch aperture which is quite large...

Just finished stripping the paint off this marble fire and it seems nice and clean. It came from a tenement up in Woodlands and is shown with an insert dating to the 1860's that has been extended to b...

Quite an early arched insert, probably late Georgian, but they used to use the same moulds for years and years so it would suit most houses. Its got an 18 inch opening which is bigger than normal and ...

Big old fella this one, and of a very early design, Georgian. Originally the fire stopped at the rounded beading but this makes them really hard to sell as its nigh on impossible to find a surround ex...

This may be a genuine Georgian hob fire, or it may be a later Victorian one, either way, its a most unusual and pretty thing, if a trifle heavy. The ribbed side cheeks are also brass but we haven't po...

Good clean pine surround of a type seen across the land from 1800 to 1900 (this one came from a flat in the west end of Edinburgh dating to the 1860's which had marble fires in the principal rooms and...

We have dozens and dozens of arched inserts patiently waiting to be restored, but it all takes time, sourcing missing bits, doing smith work, shot blasting and black leading, but this is a typical one...

We recently removed 4 of these unusual little fires from a job we're doing up in Montrose. these are having to be removed in pitch darkness from a second floor flat and then carried down stone steps, ...

We bought this, like so many others, coated in paint and have recently finished stripping it and its OK. Its not the cleanest one we've ever had but its fine and is a little cheaper than normal.There...

Pretty little fire which we see quite regularly here, though we never used to see them in Edinburgh. They seem to come from Houses dating to 1905-20 ish Tall and thin which lends itself nicely ...

about a year ago I posted a pic of part of a huge collection of companion sets on our Facebook page, about 20 boxes of bits, they'd all been taken to pieces and I stupidly thought my children would en...

Decent sized marble fire shown here just before we removed it from a house in Lenzie. A touch more detail than some we see with its extra inner trim and mini capitols. The surface has dulled a bit ove...

Rather a lovely tiled insert this, with a large opening size of 18 inches. It came from a very grand house in Edinburgh dating to the 1860's. We actually sold it a while ago, cleaned it all up and sen...

The smallest fireplace we've ever had, and we bought it from another fireplace dealer who said it was the smallest fireplace he'd ever had too. Goodness knows what sort of surround would have fitted i...