English Fireplaces and Mantels

An arched 19th Century cast Iron fireplace insert. A generous outer plate with an arched raised border. Complete with its bars and ash pan door.

A Victorian manner cast iron and brass fire grate basket. A simple yet stylish fire grate with a shaped back, scalloped sides holding a polished fire front with tapered legs, polishe...

A well cast 19th Century Victorian manner cast iron fireplace insert of good form. The large arched opening with good quality casting , a generous fire grate area with arched fire ba...

A well balanced and pleasing 19th Century English cast iron fireplace insert with colourful tiles each side. A generous outer frame with a raised cast decorative border, a central ch...

A well proportioned Bolection fireplace surround in Italian Arabescato Corchia marble. The warm variegated colours of the veining showing nicely from the pale creamy background colou...

A very large Victorian gothic style English oak fire surround with a dark stained oak finish, reclaimed from a private property in Sutton Coldfield. Dating from the mid-late 19th ce...

A.W.N Pugin style of a Gothic Revival oak coal purdonium with seed carving to the edge of the top and linen fold carvings to the front and to the sides with blind fret details to the...

These firedogs (as they were referred to), while not really serving any utility, would have been used as decoration to enhance the visual aesthetics of the hearth, by being placed one to each side of the fireplace opening. I have attached 20 images to this listing. The last image shows how they would have been used in a fireplace setting. These highly ornate pair of gilt bronze firedogs are quite important and were, more than likely, the design of Thomas Hope (1769-1831), who created elaborate and innovative decorations whose features were influenced by his extensive travel through the Near East, Turkey, Egypt, Greece, and Europe, over a ten year period. He was the foremost interior designer during the Regency period and developed luxurious surroundings for his two lavish London residences during the early 19th century. They were decorated with items of his own design, along with those he had accumulated and collected during his travels. He introduced to the British aristocracy the term "interior design". In terms of collecting, and the acquisition of fine art...

A large Victorian style cast iron arched fireplace insert with a central high relief cartouche, a generous outer plate, complete with its original bars and ash pan...

A spectacular Arts & Crafts copper fire surround. Riveted and repoussé decorated with smoke and flames. Circa 1900, England. H 97 W 107 cm Opening H 72 W 40 cm

A good quality Aesthetic Movement brass fire fender with turned details and finials above, protective mesh to the lower part all stood on a solid brass plinth.

An unadorned Edwardian solid marble fireplace surround. A solid top beam with chamfer edges, the solid section jambs have further chamfers an...

Rectangular shelf over an egg and dart moulding. The mantles central decoration featuring a central urn flanked by fluting and paterae. The bottom and sides with guilloche decoration.

English, 18th century. A Palatial 18th Century Georgian Carved Pine Mantel with Overmantel, executed in the distinguished style reminiscent of the renowned architect and designer William Kent. The fireplace surround features an impressive array of sophisticated carvings from the acanthus leaf carvings on the plinth base, oversized legged scrolls adorned with beadwork and fine quality faux drapery. The header has a central head likely depicting Dionysus with grape vines. Exquisite ribbon & bow carvings surround the central motif and are flanked by a pair of large lion head motifs. The over-mantel is as sophisticated and impressive as the bottom with carved scrolled waves, keltic style knots and bellflowers that are flanked with monumental carved silk curtain drapes...

A large stylised and very well configured fireplace in Belgian black marble and Italian Verona marble. The jambs with tapering fluted panels in Verona, surmounted by corner blocks wi...

A completely original 19th century Victorian polished cast iron and mounted polished brass fire basket grate in the Rococo style. A shaped high back ...

Antique 19th Century cast iron fireplace insert. A medium sized arched insert with raised outer border, complete with its original damper and curved cast fire bars.

A simple Georgian style fire surround in Italian Bardiglio grey veined marble, outer and inner mouldings. The jambs with moulded footblock to bottom. Images are a true reflection of ...

With a wide brown leather seat and brass frame meant to surround a fireplace. The spindles of square brass rods. Nice brown leather comfortable to sit on. From a Manchester Mass estate.

A charming mid 19th Century Victorian cast iron fireplace insert. A generous outer plate with high relief corner embellishments, a three barred shaped fire front...

19th Century Victorian cast iron fireplace grate. A Fine example of an English bow fronted fireplace basket. Complete with original shield...

A hardwood 19th century Victorian manner fireplace surround. A moulded top shelf sits above a well carved frieze of repeating Rossetti, further carved jambs with fluting, an egg and ...

A Late 19th Century Victorian cast iron fireplace insert with its original tile set. A generous outer frame, with a raised cast border, two sets of hand painted tiles showing spring...

A 19th century Regency style fireplace in veined White marble and Belgian black fossil marble. Architectural in design, with Belgian place panels within white marble mouldings...

A mid 19th century polished wrought & oak club fender. The large fender with oak-topped seats to corners over scrolled openwork panels interspersed with uprights and twists. All ...

A late 18th century English statuary marble chimneypiece with columns and panels in a grey spar marble. A plain centre tablet flanked on either side by the blue/grey spar marble pane...

A 19th Century Victorian manner cast iron & polished brass fire grate basket. The high arched back with central high relief urn. The three barred shaped fire front adorned with brass...

An English solid oak timber fireplace mantelpiece carved with Edwardian style carved corbels. Simple classical late Victorian, early Edwardian design.

19th Century Cast-Iron Tiled Fireplace Combination. Recently Salvaged From A London Town House. This Beautiful English Made Fireplace Dated Circa 1880 Comes With Its Original Full Se...

A simple period limestone fireplace surround. Consisting of a lintel and two supporting jambs, all resting on plain foot blocks. This typ...

The frieze having curved panels of verde antico, overlaid with foliate scrolls of statuary marble. The centre plaque which is dog leg in shape depicts Flora, goddess of flowers and t...

21st Century Marble Fireplace Surround. This Recently Made Contemporary Fireplace Lightly Based On An Art Deco Design. It Has Been Hand Carved From A Breccia Lilac Viola Marble. Simp...

Each jamb of the fireplace has a brown bear standing on a plinth holding a heraldic shield. Above the bears are carved capitals supporting a substantial breakfront cornice shelf. The...

In original cast iron antique Georgian Hob Grate insert, with lion masks to the capitols and a central stylised flower, English, circa 1830.

A substantial and impressive architectural late 19th century profusely carved pine and lime wood fireplace surround in the Georgian manner of Robert Adam. The shelf perfectly evokes ...

A 19th Century Victorian manner polished cast iron fireplace insert. A generous outer plate, a splayed interior leading to the burning grate, the three barred fire front with ash pan...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very important looking restored Victorian club fender with hand dyed Chesterfield tufted Whiskey brown ...

English cast bronze fire place fender with decorative scrolled acanthus motif, upper flanking griffons with lower centered wind god flanked by finial urns, pierced bulbous floral gal...

A good Arts & Crafts oak fire surround with a flaring cornice and three central shaped supports flanked by stylized floral carvings to the tops with a central beveled mirror, curved ...

An English late 18th early 19th century Bolection frame fireplace in Ancaster stone. Carved with a simple yet fine bolection moulding with stepped outer and inner profiles. Stood on ...

19th Century Georgian Marble Fireplace Mantlepiece. An Extreemly Fine Hand Carved Fireplace Surround, Made From Italian Statuary White Marble. With Ha...

Unique and elegant fireplace fender or surround beautifully crafted from metal and brass with tapering drip pans and encased brass floral themes in fine scrolling detail. A one of a ...

A large scale 19th century antique Tudor revival oak fireplace carved with ornate column-style jambs and repeating stylised scallop shell detail to the frieze. This impressive fire s...

A framed Art Deco manner fireplace surround in polished Crema Marfil marble. A well proportioned fireplace surround in the style of a framed architrave, with generous return secti...

Fine Antique English Geo. IV pierced solid brass Fireplace Fender with traditional "ivy motif"; retaining original cast brass paw feet. The original steel spark guard pan in the bott...

A large and highly carved antique oak fireplace surround, made in the Jacobean style. Produced in England during the 19th century incorp...

21st Century Limestone Contemporary Mantlepiece. This Designer Fireplace By Kelly Hopen Is One of Three Currently Available. Hand Carved From Solid Portugese Limestone Blocks, Althou...

A 19th Century Victorian cast iron fireplace insert. A generous outer plate, with a raised mould arched border, and a central cartouche, a set of carved three barred fire bars, with ...

A very pleasing 19th Century Victorian cast iron fireplace insert. A generous outer plate in the form of a horseshoe shape with cast embellishments and an intricate central shell, a funnel chamber back section the three piece curved bars adorned with three cast finials...

An antique Georgian bullseye pine fireplace, dating from circa 1790. This simple yet elegant English fire surround is typical of the Georgian period, showcasing distinct hand-carved ...

A well balanced medium sized 19th century Regency style hand carved statuary marble fireplace surround, a reeded top shelf sits directly above a stepped frieze with carved ribbon and...

19th Century Louis Marble Fireplace Mantlepiece 19th Century Statuary White Marble Fireplace ThIs Victorian Louis XV Style Marble Fireplace Is Hand Carv...

English brass gallery foliage and beaded fire place fender with flanking spiral finials, scrolled floral medallions, and resting on a step back molded edge base, Early 19th century.

A Georgian style carved pine fireplace, a moulded shelf sits above a frieze with reeded panels and a central tablet with a carved acanthus decoration, flanked by capitols featuring f...

A substantial hardwood Palladian manner fireplace surround. A moulded top shelf, with dental check below- a wrap around top cornice of carved egg & dart moulding, below a Bolection s...

An 18th century polished wrought-iron log fire basket with heavy rivet-work construction, side panels and bulbous finials. Restored. This fire basket has a good-size burning area an...

A finely carved Georgian style fireplace in lightly distressed Portland stone. The plain fielded centre tablet flanked either side by stop flutes, with carved oval Patarae corner blocks. The jambs again decorated with stop fluted panels. A shaped and molded tiered shelf with dental work...

19th century English brass trimmed wrought iron nursery guard with wide "fish-net" mesh. Used originally to protect pets and children from the fireplace. Now a decorative accessory.

An unusual English Mid 19th century fire grate in the earlier Georgian manner. The tall shaped original fireback decorated with a classical female figure medallion with beaded edge....

An Aesthetic Movement polished steel fire screen with barley-twist detail to frame on scrolled support feet. The screen features a densely latticed mesh riveted to the frame and a sh...