Four people live in this mind-bending skinny house in Bristol
It seem implausible but people live inside this toothpick-like building, which is among the leaders for the world’s skinniest house.
It looks more akin to a wall than a dwelling.
The narrow slice of real estate in Bristol, in the UK, has made global headlines after a search to find strange properties resulted in this jaw-dropping nomination.
Shaped like a piece of pie, it thins down to only 3-feet wide (about 900mm), British press have reported.
A journalist from Bristol Live knocked on the door of the house in suburb of Fishpond, and a man named Andy answered.
He told to Conor Gogarty, the webite’s chief reporter, that he has rented there for 19 years – one a four tenants – but was not conscious the configuration until recently.
Those travelling down New Station Road are confront by an almost two-dimensional looking splinter of a house. However, Andy said he always approaches the property from a different route.
“The thing is I rarely walk from that direction – I usually come from the other side, from Fishponds Road,” he told Bristol Live.
“My brother found it quite amusing because it’s a weird shape. I was a bit annoyed with myself for not noticing it, because it’s part of where I live.”
Gogarty reported that Andy’s flat was was not in the narrowest part of the building. It remains a mystery, as the door to that part was locked.
The origins of the Fishpond skinny house are not known, although Andy opines to Bristol Live that the streets around the city, in England’s southwest, can be very narrow. It may have come to be by necessity.
The closest challenger in the skinny stakes is the The Grudge, also known as Al Ba’sa, in Beirut, Lebanon.
The house is only half-a-metre at its narrowest and 4.2-metres at its widest.
The paper-thin property was allegedly built by a man to tick off his brother, who owned the house behind it. The brother had a view of the sea. So his sibling erected a tall, slender, obstructive house, to forever veil those vistas.
The aggrieved brother was said to be cross that his flesh and blood owned a better block of land than he did.
It looks impossible to live in, but it is. Apartments occupy multiple levels and have all have been rented over the years.
City laws have almost guaranteed this relic of a family feud will never be torn down.
Modern local planning rules stipulate the plot is too small to build on. If this was ever demolished, nothing could replace it. Why would anyone bother to spend the money razing it and leave only dirt? Unless you were the owner at the rear. And so The Grudge endures.
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