A tiny house, thought to be the smallest detached property in Britain (it’s about the width of a tennis court) has sold at auction for just £155,000.
On Tuesday the property went under the hammer for £155,000 – less than half the average £365,697 for a detached home in Britain and only £5,000 more than the anticipated buying price.
It is believed the buyer is a property developer who snapped up the premises in one of the most desirable areas of Leicester.
The two-bedroom property, known as Rose Cottage, is on Goldhill Road in Leicester and was built in 1900. It is just three metres (or 13ft) wide and seven metres (26ft) high, with one upstairs window.
But what it lacks in grand stats, it makes up for elsewhere: it has two floors, two bedrooms, covers a grand total of 338 square feet, and has a garden – which certainly gives a lot of London studio apartments a run for their money.
Although it might seem like a bargain – the property does still need money spent because it has only been partially renovated by a property developer.
The house is 21 square feet smaller than a property in Sheffield, which was billed as Britain’s smallest detached house in 2014.
But it is located near local schools, parks and amenities and sits only two miles from the city centre.
The property was sold by SDL Auctions at Leicester City FC’s King Power Stadium.