The Smallest House in Great Britain - Lower Gate Street, Conwy

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The Smallest House in Great Britain - Lower Gate Street, Conwy
The Smallest House in Great Britain - Lower Gate Street, Conwy

Heading up Lower Gate Street in Conwy after heading through part of the Town Wall. Thought I'd go this way to get to the bridges.

The River Conwy is also nearby.


The Smallest House in Great Britain. Looks like a tourist attraction (need a ticket I assume from that lady). But was off to the pair of National Trust properties here in Conwy.

Grade II Listed Building

The Smallest House


History

Probably C19 and inserted into a narrow space between pre-existing cottages, and built as a lean-to against the town wall. It was inhabited until 1900 and was saved from demolition, unlike the houses on its L side, by being turned into a tourist attraction.

Exterior

A very narrow single-fronted two storeyed house of red-painted roughcast front, lean-to slate roof and brick stack on the R against the town wall. A higher rubble-stone wall to the L is the rebuilt wall of a former adjoining cottage demolished in the first decade of the C20. A split boarded door is on the L and fixed window on the R. In the 1st floor is a small 4-pane horizontal-sliding sash window.

Interior

The lower storey has a lintelled fireplace and cupboard bench. Walls are boarded and the floor is laid with red and black tiles. The upper storey is reached by ladder stair, has a corner C19 fireplace and cupboard built into the rear wall.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a well-preserved small C19 cottage, an exceptional survival of special social-historical interest as the humblest of a former long row of quayside dwellings, and of additional interest as one of the town's oldest tourist attractions. It is part of a well-preserved group, with Nos 11 and 12, of C18-C19 quayside dwellings.

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Taken on: August 20, 2018
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