And perhaps expanded upon into 3D space in Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (in which the sofa becomes impossibly stuck, at least in human understood physics) -
In a similar incident that occurred while Douglas Adams attended St John's College, Cambridge, furniture was placed in the rooms overlooking the river in Third Court while the staircases were being refurbished. When the staircases were completed, it was discovered that the sofas could no longer be removed from the rooms, and the sofas remained in those rooms for several decades.
lol
Couldn't take them out the windows?
Old buildings tend to have smaller windows,so it would be unlikely. (It's a 17th century building)