The country's smallest house - 3 meters tall and 1.8 meters wide - is in the market town of Conwy in north Wales and is run as a tourist attraction by owner Jan Tyley.
For six months in the year, 50, 000 visitors
can pop inside the property, which is too small to be lived in and hard to move
around as it is.
The house has been preserved as it appeared
more than 100 years ago, having one room upstairs and a second on the ground
floor, but no bathroom.
The house itself has been in Jan's family for five generations, according to Jan, the owner.
She said her great, great grandfather bought the house in 1891 in order to rent it. Nine years later the council told him it was too small to be a house and they ordered him to demolish it. However, thanks to the local newspaper editor, the house was saved after he launched a campaign to find the country's smallest house.
When sofa firm Snug, the sofa-in-a-box company, contacted Jan in 2021 to ask if they could try fitting their Small Biggie inside, she accepted the challenge which formed part of the firm's advertising strategy. The mini makeover included a new rug, flowers, picture frames and cushions.
Tourists looked in disbelief as delivery men tried to get the sofa inside, but it took just minutes to fit it inside the house. Then, the sofa was built piece-by-piece.
Luckily, the sofa didn’t look out of place
alongside the other colourful new style touches.
Jan Tyley, the current owner, said: “The
house is over four-centuries old, and I told Snug multiple times 'There’s no
chance a sofa will get in there'. But I was wrong! I’m so happy now. 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.”
Rob Bridgman, CEO and Co-Founder of Snug, said: “Snug can fix the problems that the traditional sofa market can’t, including making sofas that arrive in a box, that can navigate awkward door frames and stairways, and fit into small spaces. The Small Biggie is our latest creation. Where better to put it to the test than in The Smallest House in Great Britain?
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Article from Express (edited)
