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The Sun
06-05-2025
- Business
- The Sun
UK's ‘smallest home' so tiny locals call it ‘Dolls House' is sold for £235k – would YOU give up space for seaside views?
THE UK's smallest property, measuring only 3ft wide in some places, has been sold for £235,000. The seaside property in Porthleven, Cornwall covers just 180 sq ft. 4 Nicknamed 'the Dolls House' by locals, the one-bedroom cottage was built in an alleyway. The property makes up for its lack of space with its seaside views, NS the beach just a stone's throw away from the front door. Changing hands regularly, the tiny house was sold in 2006 and 2020 for £127,000 and £200,000 respectively. It has now sold again for £235,000 to an unidentified buyer after being listed in January this year. 4 Comprised of two tiny floors the little cottage boasts just 180 sq ft on the ground floor and a smaller 159 sq ft on the first floor. The total floor area of the tiny property, both floors included, is just 339 sq ft. Speaking in January, Eestate agent Tom Reed of the Mather Partnership, who marketed the property, said: "You really wouldn't be able to host a family of four here." However he went on to say that the company had already received "fantastic amount of interest" in the little house. The small house in the pretty seaside town was once called the box and heater by locals because of its bizarre vintage clothing iron shape. 4 Wedged in between two more traditionally shaped homes the dolls house stands as a unique fixture of Claremont Terrace. Mr Reed said in January that the house's £235,000 guide price was "a sensible price" due to the "fantastic location" and sea view offered by the property. Average house prices in Cornwall sat around £300,000 when the property hit the market. The Dolls House came on sale at almost £100,000 cheaper than average. Despite its tiny size the Dolls House received a lot of interest, with no onward chain and an exemption from council tax, it was snapped up in just a few months. 4 The tiny seaside property comes with everything a single inhabitant could need. It boasts a bedroom, bathroom, kitchen/dining room and a reception room for welcoming guests. The miniature abode lacks a garden but has a small patio area laid with loose stone chips and even a small seating area. Now off the market, the tiny dolls house has been snapped up by a house hunter and is now marked as sold.
BBC News
17-02-2025
- General
- BBC News
Flat iron-shaped home in Cornwall is pressing for a buyer
A tiny house once named after a flat iron because of its shape is for sale in a Cornish harbour. The Doll's House, on Claremont Terrace in Porthleven, is just 3ft (0.91m) wide in ground floor of the property, with a guide price of for £235,000, covers 180 sq ft (16.7 sq m) and the first floor is slightly smaller at 159 sq ft (14.8 sq m), meaning the total floor area is 339 sq ft (31.5 sq m)."You really wouldn't be able to host a family of four here," said estate agent Tom Reed of the Mather Partnership. Some residents remember the house being called Box and Heater due to its vintage clothing iron-shaped interior and because it is wedged between two existing Terrace was once known as Lifeboat Terrace because the village's first lifeboat house was built there in James Agar Robartes MP is recorded to have given £150 to the cost of a six-oared lifeboat, and railway companies transported the vessel free of charge from London to the request of the villagers, the lifeboat was called the Agar Robartes after the donor. In November 2024, the average house price in Cornwall was £303,000, according to the Office for National Reed said the house's £235,000 guide price was "a sensible price" as it had a "fantastic location" and sea view.
