London's 'thinnest' home is up on the market for $1.3 million

The 5-Foor in home  shepherd's bush -- that is just 5ft 6ins (1.6 meters) at its narrowest point -- is presently on the market for 950,000 pounds ($1.3 million, 1.1 million euros).

The unusual assets changed into constructed someday within the past due 19th or early twentieth century.

London, united kingdom: blink and you could without difficulty miss it. Wedged between a health practitioner's surgery and a hairdressing salon, London's thinnest house is simplest diagnosed with the aid of a streak of darkish blue paint.

But the 5-floor house in shepherd's bush -- which is just 5ft 6ins (1.6 meters) at its narrowest point -- is presently in the marketplace for 950,000 pounds ($1.3 million, 1.1 million euros).

The uncommon belongings, firstly a Victorian hat keep with garage for merchandise and living quarters on its higher flooring, changed into constructed sometime in the overdue nineteenth or early twentieth century.

In a nod to its beyond, the home nonetheless has an old fashion glass shopfront with a lamp within the shape of a bowler hat.

David Myers, an assistant sales supervisor at wink worth estate marketers which is promoting the property, said the house was well worth its fee tag because it's "a completely unique a part of London records".

"it's a bit of London magic," he instructed AFP.

The scale of the residence range during.

At the same time as the kitchen on the end of the lower ground floor is the residence's narrowest spot, it opens up into a eating location that is almost double the scale.

A 16 foot-huge lawn lies beyond in the back of French windows.

The floor floor, which now carries a reception where the antique keep might had been, and the primary ground are of similar sizes.

The first ground -- wherein a bed room and have a look at may be determined -- also has a roof terrace with commanding views over the roofs and chimney pots of west London.

Spiral stairs lead from the second floor -- the region of a toilet and bathe room -- up to the master suite at the 0.33.

It's miles accessed by a hatch which opens thru the ground to shop on area and the bed, which is built in, takes up a whole stop of the room, geared up into the partitions on either facet.

Myers said the residence turned into for a "young couple or an individual" who "sees the beauty for what it's miles and will snap it up".

With what the London property agent defined as "specific" duration functions blended with artwork deco and different eclectic interior designs, the house might appeal to shoppers who were "arty" or "bohemian".

"there aren't any homes in London that are 5ft 6in. There are houses in London which are five stories however don't have such a completely unique area, such individuality," Myers stated.

"from the proprietors which have owned it inside the beyond, they've all positioned their own stamp on it," he introduced.

The rate of the house is prohibitive for maximum in Britain, where the average house price is 256,000 pounds, but regular of London's belongings market.

"it is extra highly-priced because we have everything occurring. From somewhere like shepherd's bush we may be within the very coronary heart of (London) in inside 10 to 15 minutes," the estate agent said.

If it meets its asking price, the house can have doubled in fee since 2006 when it became offered for 488,500 kilos, in line with the UK's land registry.

By using Myers' estimations, the residence is well worth greater due to its dimensions.

"In lots of parts of London people will use the pound according to square pictures mark and use it as benchmark for what are properties going to be worth," he said. 

"it does not constantly paintings like that. When you have got something as character as this, the rate needs to be contemplated on that."

The effect of the Covid pandemic, which Myers said were a impetus for households particularly to move out of London and take gain of the gap afforded with the aid of lower belongings charges out of doors the capital, meant the residence became not likely to promote proper away.

"in a situation which include Covid, where all of the fish within the sea have thinned out pretty significantly, there may be now not such a lot of shoppers obtainable.

"and there are less consumers for a unique, person assets consisting of this."

However in the end the London estate agent became undeterred. "it's chic, it is stunning, and that's why this residence will promote," he said.