One of the UK's quirkiest properties is on the market - a period cottage covered in paintings by an amateur artist.

Robert Petryszak, 58, is selling his four-bedroom 19th century home

in the pretty village of Haslingfield, just six miles south of Cambridge.

The outside walls are enveloped by 139 pieces of artwork on plywood - from portraits of people and animals, to still-life featuring flowers.

Mr Petryszak's home is listed for £450k and is even tagged on Google Maps as 'The Portraits House', becoming a local attraction.

He began painting the pieces along the gabled walls during the coronavirus lockdown and uses water-based acrylic and a matte lacquer.

Mr Petryszak, who replaces some of the artwork when it begins to wear, said: "The pandemic has done different things to different people. "

"I was working from home throughout the lockdown and staring at my blank walls."

"I'd sketched over the years but I had this idea of painting the murals. I started low down, behind the fence as to not upset the neighbours."

"I began building them up row by row and people started noticing."

"I learnt more and more, painting on a ladder before switching to using plywood. I get my inspiration from Instagram."

"People began to come into my garden to have a look. It took me four years to fill up the house. Everyone has welcomed it." "

The property, marketed by estate agents Emoov, also features four bedrooms, a large dining room with a French door to the garden, and two bathrooms.

One reviewer on the Google Maps tag asked: "Who knows where the Haslingfield Banksy will strike next?!"

Mr Petryszak, who is now selling the property after 25 years, added: "It's an outward illustration of my journey learning to paint. I trawl through Instagram and pick out subjects I like."

"I hope to paint from live subjects when I'm brave enough. "

"When I was painting, I wasn't sure if I were to move away, if people would want them. "

"But now I can leave them with the house knowing they'll stay. It's become part of the fabric of the village." "

Mr Petryszak added one of his neighbours had made an offer on the property - and it would bring it 'full circle' as he too moved in from down the road.

Estate agents, Emoov, said: "The cottage, built over 170 years ago, has two two-storied extensions built circa 30 years ago. "

"From the outside the property presents an attractive laurel hedge at the back and a curved timber fence at the front, with attractive, cultivated gardens and the front and back."