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The house I grew up in in Scotland did exactly this.

We had fireplace powered central heating -— radiators throughout the house linked to pipes behind the firebox. In the morning I’d wake up to ice on the inside of the windows, and by my teenage years it was my job to head downstairs and light the coal fire first thing in the morning. It worked well once the fire was up and running.

This was in the ‘90s btw, I’m not _that_ old.