Bayswater bedsit listed to rent for £1,240 a month — but doesn’t have a private toilet

A tiny west London bedsit without a private toilet is up for rent for £1,240 per month — and is described on the listing as “suitable for a couple”.

The Bayswater property features a dining space wedged beneath a bunk bed, a pair of wardrobes, a corner kitchen and a built-in shower.

But the listing photographs show no comfortable seating, and no internal toilet, instead requiring the tenant to use communal toilets dotted around the large residential complex opposite Cleveland Square.

There is no floorplan available on the listing, but Glissen Management said the ground-floor Bayswater property is of good size and in an ideal location.

All mod cons: the property has an integrated oven, a standalone fridge and a built-in shower (Zoopla / Glissen Management)

A spokesperson for the lettings company, who didn’t want to be named, said they expect interest from professionals looking to make it their permanent home. The annual rent bill comes to £14,880.

This includes all utility bills and council tax, they added, and the property is “a good size by London standards”.

“It has high ceilings and massive windows so there is a good deal of light and space, and the tenants will have their own shower and kitchen.

“There are six toilets on the ground floor and they are all going to be redone. It is somewhere between a studio and a house share — but you have no cleaning up of others’ mess.”

Residents at the Victorian Cleveland Square building can apply for a Westminster Zone B parking permit (Zoopla / Glissen Management)

The agent said it is selective about tenants to maintain the right living environment within the building. “We look for professionals, we don’t want party animals.”

Featuring a double bunk bed, twin wardrobes and two chairs, the apartment is “suitable for a couple” — although most likely to go to an individual — they added.

Located a short walk from Paddington Station and Hyde Park, the property may well attract those looking to sleep in the capital for work from Monday to Thursday before heading elsewhere for weekends.

But the agent said it was more likely to go to “working people looking to use it as their permanent home”.

However, they conceded that enquiries had so far been slow — and the property was reduced in price last week.

Properties in Bayswater sold for an average of £1.4 million in the last year, according to Rightmove. A three-bed flat on Cleveland Square sold for £630,000 last summer.

Renting an average room now costs £1,000 or more in almost a third of London postcodes, it emerged this month.