Abstract: An improved solid fuel burning stove arrangement to heat a selected space including a housing defining a combustion chamber, with an access door thereto for providing fuel to the chamber, a tubular combustion air sparger located longitudinally in the bottom of the chamber and having a multiplicity of generally radially directed air flow apertures, an air supply for the sparger to supply combustion air to the combustion chamber, a plenum chamber disposed in heat contact relation with the housing to receive heat generated in the combustion chamber, an air inlet to the plenum chamber and air outlet from the plenum chamber to the space to be heated, an exhaust stack communicating with the combustion chamber, a stack plenum chamber surrounding a portion of the exhaust stack to receive heat from the combustion gases passing therethrough and having an air inlet and a heated air outlet from the exhaust stack plenum chamber and further including first control device to initiate operation of the combustion air supply w