Homewood Companion
2026 update: we have finished putting the Companion through an update process (learn more here) and it is available to order again after being on paused production for more than a year! Some of the photos on this page will now be a little out of date, but specifications and relevant details have all been updated.
“The Little Stove that Can”
The Homewood Companion is the smallest and most affordable stove we currently produce. The Companion suits those with less space or a smaller budget, yet still has all the qualities that make a Homewood something worth owning: highly-functional, great to look at and of solid, high quality construction.
The Homewood Companion is a cute and functional single-oven stove that looks great in all styles of homes, and is a joy to use. It can be built in with brick, stone or tiles; installed up to benches – or looks great free-standing. Get inspired: visit our Gallery page for more photos of real world installations.
The Companion can be installed with or without legs (ideal when retrofitting into a brick alcove with plinth), or can be fitted instead on a pedestal alternative that lifts the cooking surface up the NZ standard bench height of 900 mm.
2026 Models:
(Pedestal – 900 mm to cooking surface; Legs – 850 mm; No Legs – 638 mm)
Main features: spacious single oven; big firebox; visible flames; two cooking plates; wetback for water heating, elegantly curved legs; detailed cast-iron. Continue reading for full details…
Cooking
The biggest functional difference between this stove and our larger models is that the Companion is a single oven stove. This means it will suit smaller households, or those people who are less fussed about being able to bake at two different temperatures at the same time.
The oven is still very generous, especially for such a compact stove, supplied with two oven racks and two oven trays, with 6 shelf positions, and clocks in at 58 L (350mm wide, 365mm high and 455mm deep – approx. two cubic feet). Like in our other models, all the oven panels are heavy cast iron for maximum heat retention and even distribution, and the oven door has a double-glazed, safety-grade glass window with an external guard-bar and an accurate thermometer, in both Celsius and Fahrenheit.
The oven will be up to normal temperature (180 – 220 C) within about 45 minutes of lighting the fire. Even without the slower, secondary ovens of the Heritage or Matriarch models, you are still able to do those slow roasts on the Homewood Companion, by letting your ember bed die down more and running a gentler fire for a slow-to-moderate oven, or can push your fire along more to bake bread and cook pizza on a hot-to-fast oven- just not both at the same time!
The two cooking plates of the Companion are made from heavy cast iron. The left hand cooking plate is directly above the firebox, so is ideal for searing, frying and boiling. The right cooking plate is still close to the firebox due to the size of the stove, so has a heat deflecting panel on its underside, to increase the available temperature range.
While it won’t hold as many pots or pans as the Heritage, the Companion is still able to have several on the go at once, and though it lacks the third, coolest plate of the Heritage, simmering can still be achieved by using a trivet on the right hand plate.
Check out the cooking function of the Homewood Companion in the lead video on this page, and please see further down for even more video of the stove in action.
Operation
Check the Operation section of the Heritage page, as all of that applies here – though the flue collar on the Companion takes a 130 mm flue (supplied with a 130-to-150 adaptor as standard), and the Companion firebox can take decent logs up to 165 mm in diameter and 400 mm long.
Even with its smaller firebox, the Companion is still able to run through the night, by putting as big a log as will fit onto a well-established bed of embers and shutting down all the controls.
Want to get a head-start on wood stove operation? Download an electronic copy of our Operating Manual and get yourself up to speed!
Specifications
| Total weight: | approximately 300 kg |
| Overall size: | 830 wide (880 at the front legs) by 850 high* by 580 mm deep |
| Oven: | 58 L (350 wide, 365 high by 450 mm deep) |
| Firebox: | 28 L (235 wide by 285 high by 420 mm deep) |
| Firewood: | up to 410 long and 175 mm in diameter |
| Ash pan: | 12 L (210 wide by 130 high by 450 mm long) |
| Flue: | 130 mm diameter, 4.2 m min. length recommended |
| Water jacket: | approximately 3 kW |
| Heat output: | will heat a well-insulated area of up to 125 m2 (~8 – 10 kW) |
* Height increases to 900 mm on the Pedestal option, or reduces to 638 mm with No Legs
Full Installation Specifications available from our Downloads page.
During development, we were mindful of the many people with beautiful-but-deteriorating old NZ-made coal ranges needing replacement (Shacklock, Nicholls Brothers, Champion and similar), so the Homewood Companion has been designed to fit into most of the existing spaces used for these older stoves (see installation specifications for full dimensions).
As at 2026 the Companion (along with our other models already put through the update project), can now be fitted with an optional Warming Shelf attachment, possible with all feet variations, introducing an element of customisation:
Customer Feedback
“We treasure our Homewood Companion which looks very impressive in our kitchen. It not only cooks and heats our water [680 L!] very effectively, it also keeps the house nice and warm. We find we need no other heating even with our very large living space. We believe this stove will retain it’s elegance and functionality for many decades.
– Rob and Marijke, Kaiwaka
We love it.”
>>>>> …Read more testimonials here!
Unsure if this is the Homewood for you? Learn more in this helpful compare and contrast of our various models!
Video
Check out the stove in action! Discover the Homewood Companion with Janie and the kids in this demonstration video:
Ordering
NZD$12,600 + GST; includes stove, stove tools, two oven racks and two oven trays. Does not include freight or flue, warming shelf nor water heating options (as these all vary from house-to-house, see more here).
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