The smallest house in Brussels can be found on a street just off
Brussels' main square.
BRUSSELS: Cosy might be the best word to describe the smallest
house in Brussels, which is about to go up for auction.
The centuries-old former furniture workshop and creperie a stone's
throw from the Belgian capital's picturesque central square is just 2.75 metres
wide and has a ground floor only 1.75 metres across.
"There's a lot of interest and there are also a lot of tourists
who want to see it," said Claude Rotsart de Hertaing, a Brussels pensioner
who works part time showing prospective buyers around houses.
The dilapidated five-floor Belgian townhouse, just off the central
Grand Place square, has "La plus petite maison de Bruxelles" (The
smallest house in Brussels) written across a faded wooden sign above the
entrance.
It is not Europe's narrowest however, which tourist officials in
Slovakia believe could be a 1.3 metre wide house in its capital Bratislava.
The Brussels house, squeezed between a pizzeria and a souvenir shop,
has floors each of about 16 metres squared, apart from the ground floor which
is even tighter as it has a pathway running to a courtyard down the side.
On one floor it has a potentially inviting fireplace, but you might
singe your knees if you sat facing it on an armchair.
The house will be auctioned on February 6, starting at a price of
€146,200. - Reuters
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