Inside Britain’s ‘skinniest home’ measuring just 3 FEET wide that leaves neighbours baffled – but it’s hiding a secret
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BRITAIN's "skinniest home" which measures just three feet wide has a secret hidden inside. At first glance, the incredibly narrow building in Bristol looks like you would have to be two-dimensional to live there. Approaching the property side on it looks almost uninhabitable with a tiny slither of a wall measuring up at just three feet wide.
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The block of flats on New Station Road in Fishponds is one of the city's unsung optical oddities. And the skinniest area of the three-storey property is only just big enough for a toilet cistern. Its unique appearance has caused a stir online and has both baffled and amused neighbours in the local area for years.
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But Britain's "skinniest" home is not all it seems. However, when you view the property from a few different angles you notice that it has an almost triangular "wedge" shape. The other side of the block of flats is much wider than the tapering narrow side, meaning the property is certainly not as cramped the whole way along.
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Emma, who lives across the road and moved to the area around 18 months ago, told MailOnline: "The first time we saw it, we thought it was so odd. It doesn't quite look like it's supposed to look. "And we've always thought, for ages, 'What room is in that tiny little bit?'".
The slimmest part of the building opens out into a wedge shape which some say is reminiscent of the Flatiron Building in New York. The skinniest area of the Bristolian block of flats is only just big enough for a toilet cistern, local man Andy Bollan said.
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