Lunch of cabbage and bacon stew, forever simmering in a huge earthenware pot on the central smoky fireplace of an old wooden farmhouse, costs £1.20.

NOTHING spoils the warmth and cheer of a cozy indoor fire more than a smoky fireplace.

A dull little house with a smoky fireplace.

FEW things spoil the cheeriness of an indoor fire more than a smoky fireplace.

To avoid constructing a smoky fireplace, they generally rely on tried-and-true designs that, if anything, sacrifice heating efficiency for qualities essential for containing smoke and channeling it up the chimney.

FIXING a smoky fireplace is usually not too difficult.

A smoky fireplace filled one side of the room, a narrow bed and a table another.

He curled up near their own little hearth, a small and smoky fireplace that heated the room from a common duct, warming himself on the stones.

Carter slid past a table of rowdies to an old deacon's bench that had just been vacated near the smoky fireplace.