A 2.3 metre wide 'Slim House' in London is for sale for $1.76 million

Do you need some inspiration for dealing with cramped city living? Take a look at this cute South London home up for sale, which packs a lot into a very narrow 2.3 metre-wide block.

It started life as the alleyway to allow access to some stables before becoming a pocket-sized city home, asking a substantial £1 million ($1.76 million).

Dubbed the “Slim House”, the svelte terrace was renovated in 2013 and extended by a third, so that is now offers 98 square metres of living space.

It’s also got four bedrooms, two reception rooms, and a 14 metre-long backyard, and was  featured in the popular Grand Designs television series. 

The current owner, an advertising executive who bought the property in 2017, has said that the house “has a slice of everything, but on a slightly slimmer scale”.

It’s not the only well-known London “gap house”, with architecture firm Pitman Tozer re-imagining a 2.4 metre-wide property in 2008. That home, which has 108 square metres of living space, was available to tour as part of Open House London in 2015. 

Another house in Chelsea, which is less than 2.7 metres wide, was put on the market for £600,000 at the start of 2017, and a 2.2 metre-wide house in Kensington was up for grabs for £1.25 million in 2016. 

Plans were also approved for a three metre-wide luxury “skinny home” in Westminster in August 2017.

And for a skinny city living closer to home, a 2.85 metre terrace on a 38 square metre block in Sydney’s Surry Hills sold for $965,000 in 2015. 

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