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Smallest House In Britain Gets Interior Makeover
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The Smallest House in Britain, located in Conwy, North Wales, has received a new addition to its living space for the first time in 400 years – a sofa.
As a Guinness Book of World Records holder, the property stands at 122 inches tall and just 72 inches wide, with just 1.5m squared of usable floor space.
Originally built as an infill property within a medieval row of cottages, the tiny red-fronted house has been passed down through the same family for more than 130 years. Previous owners included an elderly couple, the Edwards, and its last known occupant was a fisherman called Robert Jones, who, ironically, was 6ft 3 inches tall.
Great Britain's smallest house is currently owned by Jan Tyley and the property has been in her family for five generations. Her great-great-grandfather bought it in 1891 as a letting property. In 1900 the council deemed the property unsuitable for human habitation but luckily it was saved from demolition thanks to a campaign from the town, and was preserved as a tourist attraction.
The house, which welcomes over 55,000 visitors each year, contains just two rooms – one upstairs and one downstairs. There's just enough space for a fireplace, single bed, and a basin (there's no toilet).
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The property has never had a sofa in it – or much else for that matter. But Snug, the sofa-in-a-box company, wanted to back up their claim that their new sofa, The Small Biggie, can fit into the most awkward and smallest of spaces without compromising on comfort.
'The house is over 400 years old and is set up as it was when it was last lived in, in the 1900s, and as far as I know we've never had a sofa in there,' said owner Jan.
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Luckily, the loveseat-style sofa squeezed into the house by less than half an inch. Colourful finishing touches including dried flowers, a round jute rug, candles, cushions and photo frames completed the mini home makeover.
'We have people from all over the world coming to visit, and I'm delighted we can add another chapter to the house's story – the year the house got its first ever sofa,' added Jan.
Given the house's tiny dimensions, the sofa sadly won't be a permanent fixture. 'We have upwards of 50,000 people visiting every year and it's hard enough for them to move around as it is,' Jan told The Mirror.
Snug now plans to take on the rest of the nation's awkward stairwells, tiny hallways, and other small spaces with The Small Biggie sofa. If you have an awkward space in need of a sofa, challenge Snug to come and deliver one. For more info, visit snugsofa.com.
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The Smallest House in Great Britain Is In Conwy, Wales
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Also known as the Quay House of Conwy, the self-proclaimed “Smallest House in Great Britain” is definitely a tiny abode, but it actually looks quite cozy.
The minuscule home was created in the 16th century and remained in use until 1900, when the final tenant was forced to leave by order of the city council.
In terms of space, the little home only measures 10 feet deep and not even 6 feet wide. The ceiling is only a little over 10 feet high from the floor to the top of the eave. Remarkably, it is split into two floors. The first floor is devoted to the living area with room for coal and an open fire, and a water tap tucked behind the stairs. The upstairs holds the cramped bedroom, which also comes with a small niche for storage. How luxurious.
The Quay House has not been lived in since its last owner was made to leave over a century ago, but the interior has been preserved to provide a glimpse of the spartan life of a historic Welsh fisherman. Visitors are welcome to briefly explore the little home and are usually welcomed by a woman in traditional Welsh garb. They can explore the first floor, but the second floor has become too unstable, although guests can still peek their heads into the still-furnished bedroom.
Construction in recent years has seen the amount of tourists to the house decline, but the proud smallest house in Great Britain endures.
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The smallest house in the UK (photo story): solomatin — LiveJournal
I decided to make a separate post about the smallest house in the UK. The house is located in Wales, the town of Conwy with a population of 14,000 people. You can look at the city from the height of the walls of its castle of the 13th century in my previous story (link)The house has dimensions of only 3 by 1.8 meters. Now he is one of the main attractions of Conwy and gathers around him a lot of onlookers and tourists.
1. The smallest house is located on the Conwy embankment. Now it houses a museum. So how is the museum? For a few pounds, you can stand in line and take a look at what's inside for a few minutes. The queue is visible even from the height of the city's fortress wall:
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This shot clearly shows how it fits into the architecture of the embankment:
3. The house was inhabited from the 16th to the 19th century and has two floors:
4. As already mentioned, its width of 1.8 meters is a little short of the span of my wings hands:
5. His last guest was a fisherman Robert Jones, about 2 meters tall, which was a little cramped there. As a result, Robert moved to another house, and the city council declared this house unfit for habitation:
6. The house has two floors. You saw the first one, here is the transition to the second one:
7. In the mirror you can see how much effort this shot cost me, by the way, Robert and I are about the same height:
8. There is a small bed on the second floor:
9. And a fireplace!!!!
10. It is worth adding that in the 19th century a family of 8 (!) gnomes people lived in it:
11. This is the smallest house in Great Britain, Wales, the town of Conwy:
That's all! In the next part, we will walk along the city fortress wall.
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Editing guidebooks and collecting information about the most different parts of the world, willy-nilly, you become a collector of entertaining facts that you might not have stumbled upon in everyday life. For example, while working on Great Britain, I learned with interest about such unusual sights as the smallest house in the country and the village with the longest name in Europe. It is especially funny that these objects are located almost in the neighborhood, in North Wales.
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This fishing lodge in the medieval seaside town of Conwy ( Conwy ) holds the Guinness World Record for the smallest house in the UK . Its area is 1.8 by 3.05 m, height is a little more than 3 m. The house was inhabited from the 16th century until 1900, when a tall (under 2 m tall) fisherman named Robert Jones moved into it. The ceilings of the house were too low for him, so Robert was forced to relocate, and the City Council declared the house uninhabitable. The lodge is still owned by Jones' descendants, but now serves as a museum. This is one of the most popular attractions in Wales, attracting thousands of visitors every year. For a small entrance fee, you can see two rooms of the house (only a stove, a washbasin, a bed and a bedside table fit in the furniture here) and listen to an audio recording telling about its history. The room upstairs is so tiny that visitors do not enter it, but only look from the stairs. nine0056 Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll (“Church of St.
Mary in the Hollow of the White Hazel”), but in the 19th century, the locals decided to somehow attract tourists and lengthened the name - here is one of the earliest examples of self-promotion! It worked: now a lot of people come here to keep the ticket as a keepsake and take pictures on the platform, against the backdrop of a sign with the legendary name.
The staff at the tourist office next to the train station can pronounce the name of the village without hesitation and teach it to everyone. However, for ease of writing and pronunciation, it is usually abbreviated to the original Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll (Llanfair Pullgwyngyll), or even up to Llanfair PG (Llanfair PJ).
Map of North Wales on a 1960 postcard (c) Alwyn Ladell
In general, North Wales is an extremely picturesque and interesting region, replete with historical monuments and all kinds of objects with the definition of "the most". Here are concentrated as many as six medieval castles built by the English king Edward I (1239-1307) to assert his power in Wales - they received the name "Iron Ring".
Four of them - Carnarvon, Conwy, Harlech and Beaumaris - are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. nine0004
Beaumaris Castle on the island of Anglesey (c) anglesey-holidays.co.uk
In the vicinity of Conwy, in a picturesque valley, there is the most beautiful ornamental garden in Wales (broken in 1875) - Bodnant Gardens ( Bodnant Gardens ).
The town of Llandudno ( Llandudno ) north of Conwy is the largest seaside resort in Wales. There is also the longest pier in the UK - 700 m. The special pride of the town is everything that has to do with the writer Lewis Carroll: here is the hotel Gogarth Hotel , owned by the Liddell family, with whom the writer was friends, and served as their summer home. Little Alice Liddell became the prototype of the main character in two of Carroll's fairy tales.
Alice Liddell at the age of 7, 1860, photographed by Lewis Carroll
Near Llandudno, in the Great Orme Nature Reserve ( Great Orme ), there are the oldest copper mines in the world , the development of which has already begun in the Bronze Age.
Discovery of these mines at 1987 was a scientific sensation that turned scientists' ideas about the life of the prehistoric peoples of Britain. There are guided tours of the mines and caves dug out more than 3500 years ago. By the way, you can climb the 207-meter limestone cape, where the mines are located, on an old tram manufactured in 1902.
The highest mountain in Wales - Snowdon (1085 m) - around which the Snowdonia National Park ( Snowdonia National Park ), one of the largest in the UK, is located in the same region. Every year, about 50,000 people make the ascent to Snowdon, among which there are both professionals and amateurs. On clear days, from the top of the mountain you can see the panorama of almost all of North Wales. For Edmund Hillary, the first conqueror of Everest (1919), Mount Snowdon was a "training slope". Those who are less trained can get to the top of Snowdon on the narrow gauge mountain railway, , the only in the UK.
Near the park "Snowdonia" is a small trading town of Bala, which stands on the shore of the largest lake in Wales with the same name ( Bala Lake ).
The locals cherish folk traditions and speak exclusively Welsh. The town is so small that all the townspeople live almost on the same street. nine0004
Menai Strait Bridge (c) Bencherlite
Another of the main attractions of North Wales is the Menai Strait Bridge ( Menai Suspension Bridge ), connecting the coast with the island of Anglesey (where the aforementioned Beaumaris castle and the village with the longest name are located) . This is the world's first iron freight transport suspension bridge . Before its construction, the strait was transported by ferry. The length of the bridge is 417 m, the distance between the two towers is 176 m. The bridge was built in such a way that its height was at least 30 m above the highest tide level, which would allow sailing ships to pass. To prevent corrosion, forged metal parts were dipped in warm linseed oil before use. The opening of the bridge was celebrated in 1826 with a procession of an orchestra playing the national anthem and fireworks.
