Tiny house for sale has entire church organ installed underneath the stairs

A house with an organ built into the staircase has sold at auction after its "extraordinary" musical owner died.

It may look like a normal terraced home from the street but inside, the ‘charismatic and eccentric’ property has a unique feature never seen before by the estate agent handling the sale.

Former owner Joan Baker, who died aged 98, moved into the house in the 1940s and had the organ fitted into the house by her husband, Ronald, and his brother so she could practice for services at the nearby Holy Trinity Church.

Pipes can be seen in pictures snaking up the stairs of the Bristol home, with the actual organ positioned beside them on a half-landing, Metro reports.

Her neighbour, Dick Willis, told the BBC: "She would sit there on the half-landing and play the organ and her husband Ronald would stand on the half-landing below and play the trumpet.

"She was just the most extraordinary person. She died at the age of 98 and had been desperate to make it to 100.

"She had lived in that house since she was 21. She was very much the street granny.

"She had a great sense of humour. She was just lovely, very sociable.

"The base pipe and the pump are in the top bedroom and Ronald knocked through the two cupboards in the two top rooms and made a seating area across the stairwell which is where the keyboard, the foot pedals and the treble pipes are."

"So if you go up the house it dominates the place."

Estate agents Allen and Harris, who sold the house are keeping the price of the house in Cliftonwood, Bristol, under wraps until contracts have been exchanged from the winning bidder.

Property experts believe the new owners will be quick to remove the organ and dismantle pipes to create more space.

Estate agent James Bailey from Allen and Harris, said: "It is the first time in my 20-year property career that I have brought to market and agreed a home with a full-scale church organ."

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