Does my house count as two or three bedroom?

Enfieldian

Where is the bathroom? Upstairs?

That's where the bedrooms should be as well.

Both of them.

ultrarunner

Enfieldian wrote: »

Where is the bathroom? Upstairs?

That's where the bedrooms should be as well.

Both of them.

A lot of 2-up 2-down houses have downstairs bathrooms, or at least they do in the town where I live with which has a heavy concentration of terraces

hcb42

2 bedrooms

sounds exactly like my 2 up 2 down terrace house I moved into 25 years ago tomorrow. No way on earth I could describe it as anything but a 2 bedroom house. Yes it had a dining room, so describe that!

phoebe1989seb

Enfieldian wrote: »

Where is the bathroom? Upstairs?

That's where the bedrooms should be as well.

Both of them.

As previously posted, our last house had two upstairs bedrooms (no upstairs bathroom when we purchased in 2007) and seven downstairs rooms plus one downstairs bathroom and one shower room......does that signify that the downstairs rooms were bedrooms? We added an upstairs bathroom and only used the upstairs rooms as bedrooms as we had plenty of other uses for all those downstairs rooms. Our buyers needed five bedrooms and therefore adapted the downstairs layout to suit their requirements - three bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, conservatory and living room.........:p

kingstreet

If you describe it as a 2/3 bedroom, the potential purchaser will expect to find a third bedroom which is only accessible from one of the other bedrooms, rather than via a landing.

That's the convention agents use in this area, TBH.

katejo

kingstreet wrote: »

If you describe it as a 2/3 bedroom, the potential purchaser will expect to find a third bedroom which is only accessible from one of the other bedrooms, rather than via a landing.

That's the convention agents use in this area, TBH.

Not necessarily. Mine was described as 2/3 bedroom. the 3rd bedroom had been reduced in size when the bathroom was moved upstairs. I use it as a small study and would describe it that way. It doesn't currently have a door though I think a sliding door could be fitted if wanted.

Old_Git

when you bought it was it described as a 2 bedroom or a 3 bedroom ?
I would say 2/3 and give a floor plan

hazyjo

It's a two bedroom house. Any investor looking to let to students or whoever will already be considering using downstairs rooms for bedrooms. Because they use them as bedrooms does not mean they are officially bedrooms.

I wouldn't consider my dining room to be a bedroom! I would consider my 1st floor study to be 'Bed 4/Study'. That is a flexible space. A ground floor dining room is not - use it for what you like, but it cannot really be described as a bedroom!

Do your council see it as a 2 bed? What does your council tax, etc see it as? If anyone buying tells them it's a 3 bed, they might find their rate going up!

Jx

vectistim

kingstreet wrote: »

If you describe it as a 2/3 bedroom, the potential purchaser will expect to find a third bedroom which is only accessible from one of the other bedrooms, rather than via a landing.

That's the convention agents use in this area, TBH.

Interesting - in Reading (lots of student accommodation) this would often be described as 2+1.
On the Isle of Wight it would just be explained in the detail.

kingstreet

It does seem to vary in different parts of the country. Some areas adopting a particular phraseology, others a description in the particulars.

On the topic at hand, I do agree with those not wanting to describe a reception room as a third bedroom. I'd only do that with a flat or bungalow, I reckon.