A couple living in one of Britain’s narrowest houses said it is so narrow that delivery drivers struggle to find it.
Emily and Tyler rent the £200,000 property in Cardiff and say that apart from confusing drivers and the bathroom being a tiny 5ft wide space, the house is “not as bad as it looks”.
The house is just 9 feet 6 inches wide and has grey walls with a sloped roof containing a solar panel for green electricity.
With a long driveway, the home is vehicle friendly and can easily fit two large cars in the driveway.
But many locals said they didn’t even notice the house was on their street because it was so small.
Emily said it has a special design feature that more than makes up for its narrow frame.
She told MailOnline: “It’s actually not as bad as people think from the outside. We could put a 2.5m Christmas tree in the living room if we had to.”
The Cardiff home is just 9ft 6in wide and has grey walls with a sloping roof containing a solar panel for green electricity.
Aerial view of narrow house wedged into a strip of land between houses and a railway bridge in Cardiff
Although the house is strangely thin, it has very high ceilings.
She said the high ceilings are “certainly a complementary feature” of the slim property.
“The way it has been built is impressive and flattering to the building, bringing what was once a vacant lot in the city into the modern era,” he added.
Before the house was built in 2008, the land was an unused vacant lot. Once completed, it was put up for sale for £200,000 and Emily and Tyler’s landlord took it over.
The couple’s neighbour Flo Hollingsworth, 21, said: “I didn’t know it was there, I’ll check it out next time.”
Most of the other houses in the student area – Cathays – have terraces and face directly onto the sidewalk.
The house, a stone’s throw from the city center, has grey walls and a sloping roof containing a solar panel for green electricity.
“I think it’s great,” said Archie Wright, a 23-year-old bar manager. “Although I probably wouldn’t live there, I have a lot of sports equipment and I would need more space.”
Emily and Tyler’s house is set back to allow for a driveway, with a wall facing another house protecting one side and a fence for a walkway over a train track on the other.
This suits the couple well because of the busy resident parking lot, they said.
Emily said she had only one minor complaint about the house: the size of the bathroom, which is just 1.5m wide.
She told MailOnline: ‘I suppose it’s the same as living in a flat though, to be honest.
‘I would say maybe better because you have an upstairs…
And of course, the fact that the property doesn’t appear on many maps can make delivering packages and giving directions to friends and family more difficult.
Since it doesn’t have a number, it can often be confused with the house next door.
The house, on a quiet street in Cardiff, south Wales, measures just 2.9m wide.
Emily and Tyler’s house is set back to allow for a driveway, with a wall facing another house protecting one side and a fence for a walkway over a railroad track on the other.
With enough space for both to work from home and just a 30-minute walk from Cardiff city centre, the property is both practical and well-loved.
Despite Emily and Tyler’s fondness for the property, locals are skeptical at first glance.
“I think it’s great,” said Archie Wright, a 23-year-old who runs the bar. “Although I probably wouldn’t live there, I have a lot of sports equipment and I would need more space.”
Like Archie, friends Soham, 22, and Abhay, 23, seem to love the initial look of the property but struggle to come to terms with the realism of living there. Abhay said: “It’s quite cool but it’s so small, I don’t think I could live there.”
Soham told Mailonline: “It’s too thin, I think it would be fine if someone lived there alone or maybe for students, but I wouldn’t live there.”
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