loft conversions & regulations on eaves?

Grimbal

We have our eye on a fairly new property. It was built in the mid 90s, and a conversion of the roof of the attached double garage carried out sometime after that.

The roofline on the garage is lower than that of the main house, and so the two rooms that take up what was the loft space in there have very low eaves. I estimate that they stop at around a metre or so from the floor and come about 1.5 to 2 metres into the room.

Does anyone know if there are any regulations on how low the eaves can encroach into the room? The EAs are calling them double bedrooms and, although the floor space would be equivalent to a double room, the actual "head space" of the room means that it's only a single at best

TIA for any guidance,

Liz

white_noise

I don't think that there is, there seems not to be anything mentioned in my Loft Converstion project guide book from RIBA. just that the prefered minimum ceiling hieght at the peak is 2.3m.
WN

poppysarah

The last thing I read was about the % of the room had to be of a certain minimum head height...

RenovationMan

I remember that lady on relocation, relocation discussing this. One couple were looking to buy a home in the UK and an apartment in Paris. In the UK she said that floor area in an attic was measured literally in floor space, even if you had to lie on the floor to get your tape measure into the corner. In France, howver, they could only measure useable floor area and had a minimum head height they could go down to.

This was a couple of years back, but I doubt that much has changed since.

Grimbal

thanks guys. It looks like that the general consensus is that there doesn't seem to be any legal definition of acceptable head height. If we do proceed to making an offer I will however point out to the EA that calling these rooms "doubles" is, at the very least optimistic!