The skinny house is 10ft wide but six storeys high
(Picture: Foxtons)A glass-fronted mini skyscraper spread over six storeys but measuring only 127 inches across is up for sale for £2 million.
The three-bedroom house was built by Jo Hagan in the late Nineties on the site of a ramshackle disused cab office in Clerkenwell, where he planned to build himself a modern family home.
But he ran out of money on the project and had to put it on hold.
A couple whose warehouse Hagan had worked on stepped in and commissioned the house for themselves instead.
The modern gap house, ironically known as ‘The Wide House’ when it was first built, was featured on Grand Designs and won a Future Homes RIBA award.
It was also voted one of the top 10 modern London buildings by the Independent.
The smart home has wireless controls for lighting, TV and music and a central vacuum cleaner with sockets on each floor and the kitchen has sensor lighting.
There is also a lift that goes to every floor.
The floors are limestone with underfloor heating, including in one of the three bathrooms, which has a sunken limestone bath set in the floor. The other two are shower rooms with a lip in the limestone floor to prevent flooding.
Alcoves are set into the walls for storage and displaying objects and there’s even a utility room with alcoves for the washing machine and dryer.
Floor to ceiling windows in many of the rooms add a sense of light and space, and there’s a roof terrace on the top floor.
“This multi-award-winning architects’ dream was realised in 2004.
“Plots for building new houses are rare in Zone 1, but especially so in historic Clerkenwell,” says Greg Nickson, sales manager of Foxtons in Clerkenwell.
“How it was possible to fit a three-bedroom house with outside space on a plot of this size needs to be seen to be believed.
“In 2012, when the current owners moved in, they smartened up the internal features – literally, by turning it into a smart home where everything, like entertainment and heating, is remotely controlled.
“They installed beautiful polished plaster walls, a new kitchen and some really clever hidden storage.
“The house is vertical living at its finest, with great views from the roof terrace. Also, rest assured there is a lift running through the middle for laundry days, do not fear.
“The house represents a one-off, entirely unique opportunity to own a freehold house this close to the upcoming Farringdon Crossrail.”
