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Andrew Forgrave & Sam Elliott-Gibbs

Visitors to the UK's smallest house complain famous tiny property is ‘too small’

Unimpressed people visiting Britain's smallest house have, bizarrely, raced online to complain that the property isn't big enough.

The quaint home in Conwy, north Wales is a popular tourist attraction with thousands of people paying £1.50 for a very little look around every year.

At 122 inches tall and just 72 inches wide, and with just 1.5m squared of usable floor space, the Smallest House can come as a shock to many - despite the clue very much being in the name.

The cute home, which was occupied for more than 300 years and at one point even housed a family of six, hasn't impressed everyone.

One visitor was astonished to find it in fact is 'a very small house' - and took the grumble to TripAdvisor.

Most of the 55,000 visitors every year love the cute property (David Powell)

Some reviewers also moaned the attraction lacks capacity and facilities - but most are astonished that people actually lived there.

One person moaned: "Couldn’t spend more than half an hour there."

Another complained there wasn’t enough space to turn around.

One registered their disappointment at the absence of a ‘kitchen or bathroom’. It was also dubbed a 'small extension' by one reviewer.

It costs just £1.50 for a little look around (David Powell)

Of course there were plenty of positive comments too about the bargain attraction.

Each year 55,000 visitors pop in for a look and most

One person wrote: “Worth sticking your head in... to make you appreciate what you have at home. Great piece of history that needs to be kept.”

Another tourist did some research and wrote: "In the 18th and 19th centuries it was not at all uncommon for poorer accommodation not to have either a bathroom or kitchen, with residents using communal toilet facilities and cooking over an open fire. The Smallest House is simply preserved as a testament to how simply some people had to live in years gone by.”

It really is tiny as visitor Yajing, 23, from Shandong in China found out (David Powell)

The house's existence owed much to an enterprising builder.

In the 16th century, a row of cottages was constructed alongside Conwy’s walls. As the walls' central tower abutted onto the quay, the row didn’t quite meet, leaving a gap.

Later, as housing became scarcer, the gap was infilled to create another cottage. In time, the property would come to be affectionately known by everyone locally as “Smalls”.

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