Could You Live in Britain's Smallest House?
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Though it only measures 72 inches across, 122 inches high, and 120 inches deep, the Smallest House in Great Britain is hard to miss. | | |  | | Conwy, Wales |
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| Painted bright red, it sits on the quayside at 10 Lower Gate Street in the historic town of Conwy, Wales. Its original 16th-century owner saw an opportunity presented by a small gap between two existing rows of cottages and filled it in. The house had a succession of residents until 1881, when a fisherman named Robert Jones (who, incredibly, was 6 feet, 3 inches tall) became its last inhabitant. It was declared unfit for human habitation in 1900, but Jones wasn't going to give up "the Smalls," as it was affectionately known, without a fight. |
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