Is this a conservatory or not?

Dreddnarz

floopnoodle wrote: »

I completely agree.

From your post through it sounded like you were going to Jedi mind-trick the owners into accepting £10 and half-eaten packet of polos.

We'll start with a fiver and a quater pack of murray mints and work upwards from there!

phoebe1989seb

Any idea what the floor-level window in the conservatory is/opens into? Or am I being stupid

Definitely looks like a good, usable space and what I would term an extension rather than a *conservatory*........

Dreddnarz

That window is actually on the back wall of the second bedroom on the lower level.

I guess it's because that wall used to be the external wall leading out into the garden.

Owain_Moneysaver

I'd really want to know why the bedroom high-level window opens into the 'lounge' at floor level next to the telly.

This looks to me like a light well that's been infilled to make space.

"Do you have full building regulations for this space as a habitable room" should be your first question, followed by "because if you don't I shall hold you liable for all my costs incurred in proceeding towards an aborted purchase".

Dreddnarz

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

I'd really want to know why the bedroom high-level window opens into the 'lounge' at floor level next to the telly.

This looks to me like a light well that's been infilled to make space.

"Do you have full building regulations for this space as a habitable room" should be your first question, followed by "because if you don't I shall hold you liable for all my costs incurred in proceeding towards an aborted purchase".

That's what we were thinking, it's quite strange to see.

In all honesty if they don't have all the required planning paperwork upfront we wont pursue this property at all. It's not worth the stress, especially on a first buy.

Cheers for the tip.

Notmyrealname

Strapped wrote: »

It's not a conservatory; it just has a glass roof.

Rubbish.

It is a conservatory. Ours was built at the back of a mid-terrace house and because a road ran up the back it had to have planning permission. One of the requirements of the planning permission was high brick walls at the side.

Strapped

Notmyrealname wrote: »

Rubbish.

It is a conservatory. Ours was built at the back of a mid-terrace house and because a road ran up the back it had to have planning permission. One of the requirements of the planning permission was high brick walls at the side.

Depends how you define a conservatory. DoE defines it as not less than 50% of the wall area made of glass (and not less than 75% of the roof area made of translucent material). Granted, this one may be borderline.

I've seen similar extensions to kitchens at the side of terraced houses though and I don't think many people would call them a conservatory.

I hadn't noticed the floor level window though - that's very strange!

Fire_Fox

Glass roofed extension or sun room IMO.

Kynthia

To me it looks like a basement flat with the bedrooms on the basement level and the living space on the ground floor. Although I think the lounge leads straight to the garden but there are steps up to the kitchen, so the living space isn't exactly on one level. The lounge looks like a lean-to. It is defined as an add on to the side of a building with a sloped roof and loads of victorian houses had them, but many people have knocked them down and built a proper extension instead, although I have seen a couple when looking on rightmove.