Only one bathroom - and it's downstairs with no bath!

seven-day-weekend

If you were buying a Victorian mid-terrace house, how off-putting would it be to you if there was only one bathroom/toilet and it was downstairs and contained a walk-in shower and no bath? The house has two bedrooms, large loft conversion, two sitting rooms, cellar, galley kitchen and gardens front and rear, reasonable area near a city centre. It is fully renovated and in good condition.

This is my house which at some point we will sell to downsize to a flat. Hopefully it won't be for at least ten years! But would like people's opinions on the bathroom. The only way you could get a toilet/bathroom upstairs is to lose a bedroom or build an ensuite to the rear bedroom over the kitchen.

Your opinions welcomed!

BigAunty

Very off putting for me unless I had mobility problems...

Very off putting presumably to anyone with kids as baths are much more suitable for them.

Sure you can't fit in a mini size bath?

seven-day-weekend

We can fit in a full size bath. We actually took the bath out because we preferred a shower, but one could be put back in if it was a deal breaker.

It would still be downstairs though....

You could put a child bath inside the shower cubicle, fill it from the shower and bath the children in that. Would that be a problem to people?

gemmalouanna

Is there anyway to fit a toilet upstairs?

Personally I wouldn't mind where the shower/bath was but would never consider a house without a toilet upstairs.

seven-day-weekend

There is nowhere to put a toilet upstairs, other than walling off a corner of the main bedroom (and then it would be in the bedroom). I suppose one could go in the loft conversion, but then you would have to go upstairs to it from the bedrooms, so I don't think that would be any better than having it downstairs.

t_obermory

If the loft conversion's large enough could you have that as the master bedroom then convert one of the other bedrooms into a bathroom and a single bedroom. You'd presumably be left with two double bedrooms and a single then which is bigger than most modern 3 bed houses have.

I live in a mid-terrace with a down-stairs bathroom and find it fine, even with two kids, its nice to be able to stick them straight in the bath when they get mucky without having to traipse upstairs. However I really would prefer a toilet upstairs too, so if you could fit one in I would.

seven-day-weekend

tobermory, the downstairs bathroom has never been a problem to us either. We have owned this house since 1976 and brought our son up in it. I too preferred him to be able to come straight from the garden into the bathroom without having to go upstairs.

But apparently it IS a problem for many people, so just being forewarned. When the time comes to sell, we will take the shower out and put a P-shaped bath in with a shower over.

Your idea is one option, though, thankyou. At the moment we have two double bedrooms and the large loft conversion. The loft conversion is the biggest of the three upstairs rooms and was my son's bedroom for years.

GAH

I would say it would put about 90% of people off, as most will prefer and upstairs bathroom (including myself)

But for the build era of your home it is expected as houses originally never came with a bathroom at all.

As long as you price correctly you will be fine. You perhaps wont get as many viewers as compared to the same sort of house with an upstairs bathroom but you will be fine.

10 Years is a long way away, but unless an EA in your area tells you to do so, I wouldn't spend money putting a bath back in, if people want to do it they can do it themselves.

seven-day-weekend

Thanks GAH for your comments.

We thought maybe we could get quotes to a) put a bath in and b) divide an upstairs room like tobermory has suggested, and price accordingly. If the lack of a bath means no viewings we would get one put in.

But it is a long way off as you say and by that time people may be snapping up a good size three bedroom house at a bargain price, downstairs bathroom or not!

Than ks to everyone for your comments.

red_devil

house next to me has a downstairs bathroom and is on the market. They have had lots of viewers and offers so I am told.

seven-day-weekend

Thanks red devil, that is interesting. Do they have any toilet facilities upstairs?