I swear 95% of my fantasies are about old wood stoves in big old country houses.
I literally looked up hashtag #AgaPorn thinking it must be a thing. It isn’t. How isn’t it!? How isn’t it that everyone else doesn’t want to move to a giant old rambling house in the country and sit by a range all day, popping logs in, stirring casseroles, reading books and drinking tea with liberal splashes of whisky?
This gorgeous little wood combustion stove was in the kitchen of the old Court House in Fryerstown that we stayed in a couple of weekends ago. The Court House was opened in the 1860s and is now a private home.
The stove probably dates from around 1910/20 when Lux were among the leading producers of cast iron wood stoves in Victoria and Australia. The Lux Foundry on Hope Street in Brunswick, which closed in the 1950s (gas and electricity rapidly put wood stoves out of business), is now a heritage listed building and home to a trendy cafe. I might have to go have a coffee in the building this little guy was made.