In ridiculous news today, TheEye has been tipped off about plans by architect Tom Stebbings to build a nine-foot wide house.

It’ll be three storeys high and will be built on the site of a garage (pictured) in Albert Street, Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. Somehow there will be two double bedrooms.

The plan was described as “madness” by a local councillor at the Planning and Development Committee meeting which approved it because it is in a historic part of the area and apparently would look very out of place. You wouln’t guess that from the photograph of two councillors and a tapemeasure though, so TheEye assumes that there is a castle or something right behind the photographer.

This would make it the narrowest house in Great Britain.

Next door at No.8 are apparently not pleased at all.

For those who like their trivia, ElReg would describe these as ‘Bootnotes’

• Bury already has the smallest pub in the UK: “The Nutshell” at 15ft x 7ft.
  
• A house in Scotland nicknamed “The Wedge” has a front 47ins but widens to 11ft.
• “The Wedge” sold for £27,000 in the year 2000.

Hat-Tip to regular reader ‘Captain Picard’