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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).
Snug/Anthony Devlin
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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.
Snug/Anthony Devlin
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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Smallest House in Britain (Conwy)
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Joanne W
Daventry, UK193 contributions
Very interesting
Oct 2022
Amazing to think that a family once lived in here! The lady at the entrance was very friendly and informative, and you were not rushed to be in and out. You climb the ladder to see the bedroom but can't actually go into the upstairs room. A must see in Conwy
Written January 1, 2023
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Edward
Santa Rosa, CA1,265 contributions
Fun Tiny House to See
Sep 2022
It is fascinating to see such a small house preserved.
The history of it is interesting,. The town around 1900 started demolishing a group of small fisherman's cottages like this as unfit for habitation but the owner at the time saved it and went around the UK promoting it as a tourist attraction as the smallest house in Britain. It's thus interesting as an old tourist trap in a way, as well, and fun to see. Service was nice and it does not take long, since it has only two small rooms. They have a nice range of souvenirs on offer out front.
Written December 11, 2022
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Lin Alderson
Essex21 contributions
A very tiny house with a very tiny Welsh Lady
Sep 2022 • Couples
We didn't actually go in but it was amusing to see the little Welsh Lady in her Welsh attire guarding the house.
Written November 13, 2022
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Sarah_tweak
Halifax, UK39 contributions
Tiny house
Nov 2022 • Family
The smallest house is just as I remembered when I visited as a child 30 years ago. The visit takes about 5min once you get inside because (spoiler alert!) it is tiny! Hard to imagine living there.
Written November 4, 2022
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al k
5 contributions
The smallest house in the UK
Oct 2022 • Couples
What a quirky little house! We thoroughly enjoyed our visit.
Had a nice little chat with the lady on the door, listened to the recorded commentary inside while sitting on the bench. Climed the few steps up the narrow ladder to look through into the tiny bedroom on the first floor.
It doesn’t take long to look around, it really is the UKs smallest house but well worth a visit and taking your photo outside.
Written October 12, 2022
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vics40
Bristol, UK283 contributions
Too cute for words
Oct 2022
What a quirky, & very small house!
If visiting Conwy, you must come & see this tiny house! Its remarkable how anyone could live in such a small space, its so quirky!
Written October 10, 2022
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DW21
Wigan, UK70 contributions
Mind your head!
Sep 2022
As the name suggests, the house is tiny! As such, looking around takes at most a couple of minutes. What made the visit interesting was the excellent brief history of the house and its prior occupants, given by the guide working at the house and letting people in.
They were very knowledgeable and offered interesting facts on how the house came to be built, who lived here, and why it's survived to this day.
The price is very reasonable and is well worth getting a look at if you're in Conwy. Taller visitors should be careful not to bump their heads on the way in!
Written October 5, 2022
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mark36ph
Southport, UK11 contributions
Superb
Sep 2022 • Family
Met a lovely lady outside who told us some of the history of the house. Had a nosey around (didn't take long!).
Gifts outside the house too which are reasonably priced. Well recommended if your around Conwy.
Written September 6, 2022
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Deena K
Ames, IA52 contributions
Cute must do in Conway!
Aug 2022
We visited this attraction on a recent visit to the castle The employee at the house was very knowledgeable and informative We felt like we couldn't come all the Wales with our see the smallest house in Britain!!
Written September 4, 2022
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Shirtybird
15 contributions
Unique place to visit.
Aug 2022 • Friends
I initially saw this place on a Susan Calman holiday programme. I really wanted to visit it. Really cheap, small queue and the same lovely lady who was on the tv programme!!’ She was so really happy to take photos and I asked her lots about the filming. Inside it’s incredible to think, at one time, a family of 6 lived there !! It is really worth a visit.
Written September 4, 2022
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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:
2. 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:
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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:
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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. nine0004
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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, photo by Lewis Carroll
Near Llandudno, in the Great Orme Nature Reserve ( Great Orme ), there are the world's oldest copper mines , which have been mined since 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.
