Portway Stove Glass

Portway multi-fuel and wood burning stoves began in the early 1800’s when the owner of an ironmongery store took inspiration from the very first enclosed metal stoves which first appeared in North America at the end of the 1700’s and custom built his own stove to heat his Halstead based store.

Charles Portway’s design proved to be so successful that a neighbouring shopkeeper asked Portway to build a stove to heat his store.  Portway then set up a small foundry manufacturing solid fuel stoves that were so successful they lasted up to the 1980’s almost without any change.