One time contender for 'smallest' pub may become tiny home
Developers have submitted plans to convert a one-time contender for the title of World's Smallest Pub, into a small home.
The Micro Pig opened in the East Riding village of Tickton in 2018, following the closure of the much larger New Inn, which it was part of.
It stopped trading in September 2025.
It has a floor area of just 38 square metres but developers Richmond Properties say this is just above the minimum size for a home with a shower room.
In 2019 the then licensee Geneva Low – a director of Richmond Properties since 2022 –said she was pursuing the record for the smallest pub in the world.
An application recently submitted to East Riding Council states that the former bar would make an “attractive one-bedroom home” and a “modest but valuable contribution to the local housing supply”.
It adds: “The proposed house has a floor area of 38 square metres.
"This is above the minimum size specified within the nationally described space standards and local planning policy for a one-bedroom single storey house with a shower room, which is 37 square metres.
"The house is also provided with a private courtyard garden and two dedicated parking spaces.”
The New Inn was part of life in Tickton for over 150 years.
Richmond Properties were granted permission in 2018 to build two new homes on the former car park.
The village still has one other pub, the Crown and Anchor on the River Hull, which dates back to the 1820s.
The application claims the village can’t “realistically support two pubs in the long term”, and allowing change of use of the pub will help trade at the Crown and Anchor.
The Nutshell, in Bury St Edmunds, which measures just 15ft by 7ft with standing room for about 20 people, was listed in the Guinness Book of Records during the 1990s as the smallest pub in the UK.