Feb 27, 2010: Narrow House

[xoxoxoBruce]

Stormieweather thought you might be as fascinated as she is, by this narrow house.
It certainly would require a huge change of lifestyle for most people...
especially a family of four.

Anyone who claims you can't cram a quart into a pint pot should visit the house owned by Iain and Rachel Boyle. It is only 6ft wide and 21ft from front to back.
Yet in that tiny space is an entrance hall, kitchen and shower room on the ground floor, a first-floor living room and a bedroom in the eaves. Mr and Mrs Boyle believe that the former donkey-cart shed could be Britain's narrowest inhabited terrace home and have written to Guinness World Records to ask if they are right.

I guess a "terrace home" would translate to row house, here.

Mr Boyle, 51, said: 'Property is so expensive in Brighton that our tenants have always been thrilled to find a house they can afford with a garden.
'They don't ever have to switch the heating on - it is so narrow that it is insulated by its neighbours.'

A 6ft by 10ft garden wouldn't grow much more than flowers to look at out the window, but not paying for heat is a big plus.

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