06 July,2011 12:49 PM IST | | ANI
Architects of a house built in an alleyway in Poland have claimed that it is the world's narrowest as it is just 60 inches wide
The home, which comes complete with bedroom, lounge, bathroom and kitchen, is so narrow that the builders have abandoned a traditional staircase in favour of a ladder.
Each of the four storeys goes back nearly 40ft with a room on each floor of the apartment, crammed into an alley between an old tenement block and a tower block in Warsaw, Poland.
"I saw the gap and just thought it needed filling. It will be used by artists," the Daily Mail quoted architect Jakub Szczesny as saying.
The first resident will be Israeli writer Etgar Keret after British historian Norman Davies turned down the chance to live there.
The world's official narrowest house, The Wedge, on the island of Great Cumbrae off Scotland's North Ayrshire coast, measures just 47 inches at the front - but spreads to 22ft as it moves back from the road.
It was sold as a holiday home in 2000 for 27,000 pounds.
"Ours is the same all the way through, so we are narrower for longer," one of the Polish design team said.
