An advert for a box room to rent in Lewisham for £74 per week featuring a ‘bed’ on a desk has sparked outrage among Twitter users.

The advert, posted on spareroom.co.uk, for the tiny room states it is in a property close to Elverson Road DRL station and shared with seven other people.

Advertiser Tanya also requests a £200 deposit to secure the room available October 5.

The advert reads: ‘You would share the house with easygoing people from Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, and Portuguese’.

The photo featured in the notice shows broadband cables hanging from the ceiling of the box room.

Alex Hilton, Director of Generation Rent, said: “These adverts display the depths that the housing market in London has sunk to. Landlords are getting away with doling out smaller and smaller spaces to people desperate for a roof over their head.

“It's increasingly irrational for a landlord to treat you decently; the good ones make less money and it’s the terrible ones who end up with the property empires.

“We're working with local renters to set up a Lewisham branch of Generation Rent to campaign for the council to license all landlords so the worst ones can be run out of the borough.”