5 of the Narrowest Houses in the World, the Last One Will Amaze You

5 of the Narrowest Houses in Europe. The last one will astonish you because it is the narrowest in the world. But Europe is the champion of small and narrow houses.

Some have become famous tourist attractions known worldwide due to the historical significance associated with each house.

5 France – Louvre

In the center of this town, there is a house unlike any other, which challenges normal dimensions. Its length is 7 meters, and it is narrow, only 130 centimeters wide.

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4 United Kingdom – London 

Its width is only 108 centimeters, while its length measures 3 meters.
The five-level period home – wedged between a doctor’s surgery and a shuttered hairdressing salon in Shepherds Bush in West London – is not too different from that magical house owned by Sirius Black in the Harry Potter movies that was invisible to the neighbours.

A stripe of dark blue paint and a skinny door built into the recess of the footpath’s ground-level frontage are all that can be seen from the street.

UK’s Mirror reports that the property was originally a Victorian hat shop with storage for merchandise and living quarters on its upper floors, and built sometime in the late 19th or early 20th century.Despite its unusual dimensions, inside the property presents as a renovated – albeit extremely narrow – period home.It features an Aga-powered, Nest-controlled central heating system, period parquetry floors, original art deco bath tub, roof terrace and double full-height glass doors leading from the glazed dining area to the recently planted private patio garden.

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3 Spain – Valencia

THIS EXTREMELY SKINNY BUILDING HOLDS the record for the narrowest façade in Europe. Measuring 107 centimeters (42 inches) wide, La Estrecha (Narrow One) could be considered the narrowest house in Europe and maybe in the world.

Certainly, there is competition for the title. Poland’s Keret House was built in 2012 and measures just 72 centimeters (28 inches) at its narrowest point, but it reaches a width of 122 centimeters (48 inches) in the façade. And in Amsterdam, the façade of Singel 7 is just 105 centimeters (41 inches) wide—but behind that extremely narrow front sits a standard-width home.

Located in Valencia’s Plaza Lope de Vega, this house was originally built as a family home. Each of its five floors was made up of a single room: the ground floor served as a family-run jewelry shop, and the floors above held a small dining area and bedrooms, all joined by a spiral staircase. In the 1980s, an indoor refurbishment led to the removal of an inner wall, so technically the property is part of the restaurant in the adjacent building. But the five-story building has preserved its own front door so from the outside, it still looks like a separate structure.

Situated in the very heart of Valencia, near the Cathedral and other highlights in the Old Town.

 2 Poland – Warszawa, Kerret House

The Keret House, located in the Warsaw district of Wola, is known as the world’s narrowest house

This unique architectural marvel was conceived by Polish architect Jakub Szczęsny and officially opened on October 20, 2012

The house, which measures 72 centimeters at its narrowest point and 122 centimeters at its widest, is more of an art installation that reacts to the past and present of Warsaw
Despite its narrow dimensions, the house’s naturally lit interior doesn’t feel as claustrophobic as one might think
The Keret House serves as a temporary home for traveling writers, starting with Israeli writer Etgar Keret
 

1. Austria – Bregenz

The house is titled as ‘narrowest house of Europe’. This refers to the house front above the door with a width of only 57 cm (22.44 in.). To the rear it opens wedge shaped and is a bit more than 6 meters wide. The living space is 60 m2. The last known owner was a chandler in 1796. The house is therefore over 200 years old. There are other houses in other cities which lay claim to this title, but all of them are wider than this facade in Bregenz. It is not listed in the Guinness Book. Austria, Aug 4, 2012.