ESSE is the UK's longest-standing stove manufacturer, having been established way back in 1854.

This proud British company has a rich and interesting heritage which our onsite museum bears testament to; from a shipwreck in the Atlantic, to Florence Nightingale, James Bond and the famous range cookers and stoves we love so much today. The knowledge and skills gained over more than a century and a half go into everything we do, and ESSE range cookers and stoves are designed to last a lifetime.

Each one of our modern stoves can trace its ancestry back through the decades to ESSE's original models. The selling points in the very first brochure still hold true today: "Great economy in point of fuel, great economy in point of cleanliness."