Thin house Fat price

A house which is just 5ft 5ins wide in places has gone on the market for £525,000. The property, which is in Goldhawk Road, Shepherds Bush in London, measures just 9ft 11ins at its widest point. The former hat shop is squeezed between a massage parlour and a fabric shop, and has a roof terrace with panoramic views of West London. It is arranged over five floors with a kitchen, dining area, reception room, three bedrooms, one with a built-in bed, a bathroom, shower room and dressing room, as well as a small garden. The bathroom is so tiny that all it contains is the bath, and the photograph of it for the sales brochure was taken from above. The house is described by estate agents Winkworth as being "utterly amazing and almost certainly unique". The estate agent thinks it is the narrowest home it has ever put on the market. Its current owner, who is a celebrity photographer, is selling it after living there for 14 years. Russell Chilvers, a sales negotiator at Winkworth, said the property was "pretty amazing" and did not feel "overly narrow" when you were inside it. He added that the house had been on the market for only a week and a half and he expected it to sell quickly. ...via