London: Just 60 inches wide, a four-storey house with a bedroom, lounge, bathroom and kitchen -- but no staircase -- is being claimed to be the world's narrowest property.
The home is so narrow that the builders abandoned a traditional staircase in favour of a ladder, Daily Mail reported Tuesday.
Each of the four storeys goes back nearly 40 feet 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," said Jakub Szczesny, the architect.
The first occupant of the house 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," said one of the Polish design team.
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