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Latitude: 53.2823 / 53°16'56"N
Longitude: -3.8286 / 3°49'42"W
OS Eastings: 278185
OS Northings: 377712
OS Grid: SH781777
Mapcode National: GBR 1ZPH.X2
Mapcode Global: WH654.5R4K
Plus Code: 9C5R75JC+WH
Entry Name: The Smallest House
Listing Date: 6 May 1970
Last Amended: 5 May 2006
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 3317
Building Class: Domestic
Also known as: The Smallest House in Great Britain
Quay House
The Smallest House in Britain
ID on this website: 300003317
Location: At the SE end of a row of houses built against the town wall, facing the quayside.
County: Conwy
Town: Conwy
Community: Conwy
Community: Conwy
Locality: Walled town
Built-Up Area: Conwy
Traditional County: Caernarfonshire
Tagged with: House Tourist attraction Historic house museum
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.
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.
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.
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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