Smallest House in Great Britain

The Smallest House in Great Britain, additionally referred to as the Quay House, is a traveller enchantment on the marina in Conwy, Wales. It is reputed to be Britain's smallest residence. The minuscule domestic became created inside the sixteenth century and remained in use till 1900, while the tenant become a 6-foot-3-inch fisherman named Robert Jones. The rooms have been too small for him to rise up in completely and he changed into eventually forced to move out when the council d the house not worthy for human habitation, in conjunction with a number of homes.

The house remains owned via his descendants, having been passed to female relatives considering that Robert's sons showed a loss of interest inside the enterprise. After some persuasion with the aid of the then editor of the North Wales Weekly News, Roger Dawson and the editor toured the UK if you want to the residence The Smallest House in Great Britain, a status that turned into later showed by way of the Guinness Book of Records. Admission is £1.00 for adults or 50p for kids. Visitors are unable to move upstairs to the first ground, because of structural instability, but can view it from the step ladder. It is open from spring to autumn.