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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThis doorway sandwiched between a pub and a betting shop leads to what was once the smallest house in England<\/strong>\u00a0(Image: Google Maps)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Only a plaque identifies what was once the smallest house in all of Great Britain, now knocked off the top spot by an even tinier property on the North Wales coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The little house on\u00a0Wavertree\u00a0High Street is sandwiched between the Cock and Bottle pub and a betting shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A plaque from\u00a0The Wavertree Society\u00a0branding it ‘THE SMALLEST HOUSE’ reads: “Later part of the Cock & Bottle public house, No.95 High Street was once known as the smallest house in England.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wavertree\u00a0Town Hall is just a few doors down, and it sits around the corner from\u00a0George Harrison’s childhood home\u00a0on Arnold Grove.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You’d be forgiven for missing the pint-sized property painted the same colour as the neighbouring pub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A door and upstairs window consume most of the width of the property’s front, making it hard to imagine\u00a0who’d have room to live inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The house was apparently built around 1850 to replace a narrow side passage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is said to measure up at a mere six feet wide and 14ft from front to back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was eventually incorporated into\u00a0the Cock and Bottle pub, possibly in 1952, once serving as the living quarters for the pub\u2019s licensee, according to the Cock and Bottle\u2019s manager Chris Bennett.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But its prior history is mysterious and fascinating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One story goes\u00a0that a husband and wife raised eight children in their tiny home, while another tale tells of a particularly large resident who had to go up the stairs sideways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Repairs and renovations a decade ago transformed the tiny house, and reportedly later a storage room for the\u00a0Cock and Bottle, into a passageway as it once was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can’t imagine it from the outside, but behind the door is a stairway leading to\u00a0a four bedroom flat\u00a0above the bookies and pub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Only a plaque marks it as the miniature house it once was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"England's](\"https:\/\/i2-prod.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/incoming\/article16649954.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/1_Merseyside-Tales.jpg\")