You can place them and they have collision as intended but keep the green and red boxes which normally would indicate valid and invalid positions when in building mode. Red / green has no consequences regarding placement and they can just be placed next to each other.
Steps to reproduce: Place one. 
Edit: While they have collision for the player, one of the guests walked through them. So they might have no longer collision for NPCs.
Savegame through dm if necessary (sorry, I don't like posting that stuff public).