Snuggle round rather novel fireside feature (9)
I believe the answer is:
hearthrug
'snuggle round' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'rather novel fireside feature' is the wordplay.
'novel' is an anagram indicator (letters in a new or novel order).
'fireside' becomes 'hug' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'feature' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'rather' with letters rearranged gives 'earthr'.
'earthr' put within 'hug' is 'HEARTHRUG'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for hearthrug that I've seen before include "one's position's under fire" , "floor-covering" , "Carpet by fireplace" , "Carpet in front of fire" , "One floored by blaze" .)