Add an extra bedroom or keep large bathroom?

Help1234

Hello,
We live in a 2-bed property and are planning to move in a year or two. We have a dated bathroom and want to improve this to hopefully improve our house saleability. However, a number of properties on our street have converted their 2-bed houses into 3 beds. We are therefore not sure whether we should do this as well depending on cost/profit at the end. It’s a Victorian semi in Haslington, Cheshire.
This is our current floor plan:

However this is the floor plan of another house on the same street that recently sold for £20,000
more than we would have thought we could get for our house:

We have had a quote of £2000 to move the bathroom (plumbing). We would also want to pay for a window to be fitted in the new split bathroom.

This is the street: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/cw1-5nt.html?searchLocation=CW1+5NT

JohnSmith0701

Other cost effective option could be to split front bedroom on first floor into two rooms. You may need to move interior wall of adjacent room on first floor slightly. 

zagubov

We did a version of this for our first house. It did add a lot of value when we sold it. 

We’re in London and space is always tight but having extra rooms gets lots of interest from growing families. 

kinger101

Simplest thing to do would be to ask a local estate agent (or three) how much they'd think it add to the property value.  

GHolmesAdmin

I would hazard a guess the bathroom was originally a bedroom, it's looks like the exact floor plan of my grandmothers house, which when she moved in had only an outside loo and you used a tin bath in front of the fire, she had the smallest bedroom converted to a (huge) bathroom which intrigued me as a child. Sorry for the trip down memory lane!

AdrianC

What have EAs in your area said?

Are there any dimensions?

Because it looks to me (mentally scaling from bath length) like you'd be taking two decent-size bedrooms/one decent size bathroom, and making one decent-size bedroom/two poky boxrooms/one poky bathroom. 

GDB2222

I would probably go for a shower rather than bath, if this would save space. The smaller the bathroom, the bigger the bedroom that’s left.

jackieblack

GDB2222 said:

I would probably go for a shower rather than bath, if this would save space. The smaller the bathroom, the bigger the bedroom that’s left.

Except many families with young children (likely target market for a 3 bed house) prefer to have a bath.

GDB2222

jackieblack said:

GDB2222 said:

I would probably go for a shower rather than bath, if this would save space. The smaller the bathroom, the bigger the bedroom that’s left.

Except many families with young children (likely target market for a 3 bed house) prefer to have a bath.

I entirely agree, but the floor plan shows that there isn’t a huge amount of space to make a third bedroom. So, the choice may be between a bath with a minute bedroom, or a shower with a small bedroom. There will be more takers for the latter, I’d suggest.

Help1234

Thanks for all your comments. Here is a link to a house that has done it: 
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=82737569&sale=90339780&country=england

The dimensions can be found in the description here:
https://www.zoopla.co.uk/property-history/32-crewe-green-avenue/haslington/crewe/cw1-5nt/51838127

robatwork

Is there room to squeeze in a toilet under the stairs?

And agreed re keeping a bath if possible - if you end up with two tiny bedrooms, your appeal is then to young families with 1+ small children so the room size isn't so important.