Hello everyone,
We are interested in a very nice plot of land that is quite long but very narrow. After deducting the required setbacks from the neighboring properties, the house can be a maximum of about 5.50 meters (18 feet) wide. The length is fine, allowing for a building of up to 14 meters (46 feet). Only a single-story building is permitted, so there would be no option to convert an attic, resulting in a total living area of around 150 square meters (1,615 square feet).
Our question is whether the width is too narrow and if it would feel like living in a narrow corridor? Has anyone had experience with this?
Thank you in advance for your feedback!
Regards, Anne
We are interested in a very nice plot of land that is quite long but very narrow. After deducting the required setbacks from the neighboring properties, the house can be a maximum of about 5.50 meters (18 feet) wide. The length is fine, allowing for a building of up to 14 meters (46 feet). Only a single-story building is permitted, so there would be no option to convert an attic, resulting in a total living area of around 150 square meters (1,615 square feet).
Our question is whether the width is too narrow and if it would feel like living in a narrow corridor? Has anyone had experience with this?
Thank you in advance for your feedback!
Regards, Anne
I don’t really see a problem here, since unlike with a terraced house, the front door doesn’t have to be placed on the narrow side. This way, you don’t have a long, narrow corridor in front of you but can enter on the wide side and then go left and right into fairly spacious rooms (narrow side 4.20 meters (13.8 feet) or even 4.70 meters (15.4 feet), which is quite decent!).
It’s not quite that simple. The terraced houses in the UK are two or more stories high. They often have narrow, elongated rooms. In contrast, the original poster mentioned a single-story construction. In this case, the design of the roof and possibly the use of bay windows will be quite interesting.
I see multiple stories in row houses more as a disadvantage. Since you can’t build outwards (and the original poster has plenty of space for that), you have to build upwards. This leads to tower-like structures, where in extreme cases there is just one room per floor. In our family, we have one or two of these "towers," and I find them terrible. I’d much prefer a longer, stretched-out design with a side entrance and a stepped upper floor with a large roof terrace.
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