Existing Loft room

johnsmith750

We have an Edwardian house built in 1907 where the attic was built as a bedroom for the 'servant'.  We consider this to be our 4th bedroom and when we bought the house this was how it was marketed.  Am I right in thinking that as this was it's original intention and has never been converted that we can count it as a 4th bedroom? 

Comms69

There's nothing special about 'loft' rooms, so i dont understand the confusion, but sure.

davidmcn

It's fine. Or it is what it is anyway. People get very excited about lofts but the main issue is whether modern conversions have been done to current standards - yours would have been built to the same standards as the rest of the house, so didn't need to comply with building regulations etc.

AdrianC

It's a room. If it has a bed in, it's a bedroom.

It doesn't meet modern BR, no. But nor does it need to. It's never had any BR sign-off, because it's never needed it.

blue_max_3

I always thought you had to have a window in a room to class it as habitable. Could be wrong though.

davidmcn

blue_max_3 said:

I always thought you had to have a window in a room to class it as habitable. Could be wrong though.

Well, the OP doesn't say, but I doubt it's lacking a window.

Mickey666

It’s an old house so the current rules don’t apply.  We have three large attic rooms, only accessible by a very tight half-spiral staircase and you need a rope to hang on to when coming down.  Modern building control would laugh it out of a new build, but the regs are irrelevant.  If it’s useable space then use it for what you want.  People tend to think of any rooms not on the ground floor as bedrooms, I’ve never really understood why.  I use one ‘bedroom’ purely as a study and the three attic ‘bedrooms’ as a music studio.  Seems such a waste to fill them with unused beds . . . I’m not running a hotel!

lincroft1710

blue_max_3 said:

I always thought you had to have a window in a room to class it as habitable. Could be wrong though.

I understand there is a hotel in Scarborough which has bedrooms without windows 

Mutton_Geoff

lincroft1710 said:

I understand there is a hotel in Scarborough which has bedrooms without windows 

The airport hotel in Kuala Lumpur doesn't have any windows, just some pretty jungle wallpaper on one wall.

davidmcn

lincroft1710 said:

blue_max_3 said:

I always thought you had to have a window in a room to class it as habitable. Could be wrong though.

I understand there is a hotel in Scarborough which has bedrooms without windows 

Yes, it's permissible for hotel rooms, as long as they've got sufficient ventilation. Quite a few of the more "pod" style of urban hotels have internal or basement windowless bedrooms.

Shelldean

The hub by premier inn had pods rooms...awful places!!!! Got moved for second and third nights, I don't suffer from claustrophobia but felt it in that room