Floor plan - puzzled!

Annie1612

I am booking a second viewing on a property. It’s advertised as a 4 bed detached. At the first viewing, the estate agent insisted that it was classified as a 4 bed and was built as such, however the 4th bedroom is strangely coming off the bathroom. I am wondering if it has possibly been altered though to make a 3 bed house plus study. It was built in the 1930s - traditional detached house on a street of similar dated detached and semis. Can anyone hazard a guess as to the original floor plan upstairs? Thinking I might put it back to its original state if I bought it. 

400ixl

Would it have had an upstairs bathroom in the 30's?

What is now the laundry may have been the original, perhaps slightly larger, or with an outdoor toilet. 

Chieveley

Look at the floorplans of other houses the same style? Rightmove sold might help.

housebuyer143

Not sure I would want a 4th bedroom off the bathroom, because if someone is using it how do you leave your room 🤦‍♀️ I can't believe it would be been built with that intended as a bedroom. 

FlorayG

I would expect it had an outdoor toilet and no bathroom upstairs so that would have been another large bedroom. My 1930's house had a bathroom installed downstairs taking half of the original kitchen

Flugelhorn

the original bedroom would have been quite small, strange they didn't take the whole of it to create the bathroom - definitely not a 4 bed!

Keep_pedalling

400ixl said:

Would it have had an upstairs bathroom in the 30's?

What is now the laundry may have been the original, perhaps slightly larger, or with an outdoor toilet. 

Most of them would have had an upstairs bathroom, our 3 bed semi did. What most lacked was a downstairs loo as this one still does.

Bit of an odd design having a room off the bathroom, even if it was a later modification. 

Annie1612

Thanks for the comments. I hadn’t thought of the possibility of a downstairs bathroom with 4 upstairs bedrooms. I guess the only option to get a bathroom upstairs and keep the 4 beds was to do what they have done here. Definitely wouldn’t put the bathroom downstairs though, so would have to just make a 3 bed with a large bathroom I guess.

Flugelhorn

I think the things is, are they pricing it as a 4 bed?

bluelad1927

Intended or not its a very messy setup which most people wouldn't live with. It almost looks like they taken landing space to put a shower in and widen the "bedroom"

daveyjp

Two possibilities.  It was a bedroom which was split to provide a very small bathroom.  It was a very large bathroom which was split to provide a 4th bedroom/study.

Which ever it was I wouldn't pay a 4 bed house price for it as it is too compromised at the moment.