Pint-size pad with king-size price tag: 5ft wide London house sells for £750k
A house that is just 5ft wide in places has been sold for £750,000.
The pint-size pad is sandwiched between two double fronted properties on a street in north London.
Despite being only a little wider than a rugby player’s shoulders, the estate agency blurb described the property as being “well proportioned”.
It has two-bedrooms, a tiny study, reception room, shower room, cloakroom, kitchen and a garden.
This home must be one of the few in which you genuinely could not swing a cat
At its widest, it stretches across 8ft 8in.
The property, in Islington, was put on the market with Foxtons for £750,000 - almost double the price it sold for in 2001.
And its dimensions didn’t put off buyers with the estate agency confirming the home was now under offer.
Foxtons would not comment further, but the advert called it a “stylish two bedroom period house” which “offers beautifully bright living space throughout with characterful touches and a pretty rear garden”.
At this price, the buyer will have to pay £27,000 in stamp duty - the same as a second-hand narrow boat which is 50-foot long and 6-foot 10 wide.
Henry Pryor, a buying agent, said: “This home must be one of the few in which you genuinely could not swing a cat.
“Strangely the first floor master bedroom is wider than the ground floor room below and it has what boat owners would know as a ‘galley kitchen’.
“A lot of buyers would struggle with the idea of living in a home little bigger than a cricket net.”
Late last year a 34-bedroom North Devon mansion which is 40 times the size of the Islington home sold for just £600,000.
