[2] The minuscule home was built in the 16th century and remained in use until 1900, when the tenant was a 6-foot-3-inch (1.91 m) fisherman named Robert Jones.

The rooms were too small for him to stand up in fully and he was eventually forced to move out when the council declared the house unfit for human habitation, along with a number of properties.

[citation needed] After some persuasion by the then editor of the North Wales Weekly News, Roger Dawson (the owner) and the editor toured the United Kingdom in order to declare the house The Smallest House in Great Britain, a status that was later confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records.

The ground floor is devoted to the living area with room for coal and an open fire, and a water tap tucked behind the stairs.

[1] Visitors are unable to go upstairs to the first floor, due to structural instability, but can view it from the step ladder.