Is this London's smallest home? One-room property on market for £275,000

 
Minuscule: the owner will have to clamber onto the kitchen worksurface to access the bed (Picture: Zoopla)
Alexandra Rucki7 September 2014

A tiny house which requires the owner to sleep on a shelf above the kitchen has gone on the market for £275,000.

The property, located in Richmond Avenue, Barnsbury, Islington, could be London’s smallest house at 188 sq feet and is piped on property website Zoopla as a “pied-a-terre”.

Whoever snaps up the house will have to clamber onto the kitchen worksurface if they want to go to sleep on the “mezzanine sleeping level” – which appears to be just a shelf.

Photographs of the one-room house show a small living room area with two small cushions, two stools and a miniature dining table.

Exterior: the house is located in Richmond Avenue, Islington

The “unique” property also includes a bathroom with a shower and toilet in close proximity to each, but no sink.

A description on Zoopla said: “Offering convenient living in the heart if Barnsbury is this unique one bed house presented in great condition throughout.

“The property would make an ideal buy to let or pied-a-terre and provides a creative open plan living space with built in storage, shower room and mezzanine sleeping level.”

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The agents describe the area as “highly sought after” with bars, boutique shops and restaurants close by, as well as good public transport links.

House prices in Islington have surged by more than two per cent in the past year, with average selling prices around £645,000.

Last week the Standard revealed a similarly tiny home believed to be London’s thinnest home. The property, squeezed in between two houses in Haringay, north London, is just 83 inches wide and costs £235,000.

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