Floor plan - puzzled!

GDB2222

You can cram a bathroom into a surprisingly small space. Toilet at one end, and a shower at the other, with a basin in the middle. So, it looks like there’d be enough space to make a passageway into bed 4.  

There’s quite a bit of work I’d want to do to that house, and I’m not particularly fussy. Has that been factored into the price? 

You might find that you want to replace the boiler with a combi, so that you can do away with the airing cupboard and incorporate that space  into the bathroom, for instance. 

LightFlare

I could live with that arrangement.
bedroom 4 would become a “wardrobe” for our huge collection of clothes, coats, shoes etc 

Our current bed 4 serves that purpose now - albeit not running off the bathroom

I def wouldn’t be paying 4 bedroom price though (as others have already said)

FreeBear

Annie1612 said: I am going to check the doors when I go and also look for other clues as I need to know the answer! 😂

When I moved *here, I remember an airing cupboard being constructed using a door that matched all the others in the house - This was done some 40 years after the place was constructed. No idea where this door came from. It might have come from a local salvage yard... What gives it away that the cupboard is a later addition is the side being constructed using old tea chests, and architrave not quite matching other doorways.

One clue that will point to the bathroom being a later addition - Look under the loft insulation. If you can see the top of the stud wall, it may be original.

DullGreyGuy

LightFlare said:

I could live with that arrangement.
bedroom 4 would become a “wardrobe” for our huge collection of clothes, coats, shoes etc 

Our current bed 4 serves that purpose now - albeit not running off the bathroom

I def wouldn’t be paying 4 bedroom price though (as others have already said)

Was thinking a dressing room too, so a walk in wardrobe with somewhere to site if non-makeup biased or with a dressing table and chair too if someone does like their makeup

sheramber

Could the original bathroom been where the laundry is now but moved upstairs for convenience. 

Bonniepurple

Grumpy_chap said:

I suspect the original bathroom was upstairs but much smaller, so the airing cupboard was accessed direct from the hall way and so would the 4th bedroom be accessed from the hallway.
Sort of like this:

(Ignore the two extra doors that are obviously now incorrect.)

Possibly the 4th bedroom was larger (and bathroom smaller) if the original wall ran from the edge of the window, like this:

Having looked at the floor plan of a similar aged house that my brother is buying, this seems likely.  I suspect that the laundry room would have contained an outside toilet that’s been tacked on to the house.  

Annie1612

GDB2222 said:

You can cram a bathroom into a surprisingly small space. Toilet at one end, and a shower at the other, with a basin in the middle. So, it looks like there’d be enough space to make a passageway into bed 4.  

There’s quite a bit of work I’d want to do to that house, and I’m not particularly fussy. Has that been factored into the price? 

You might find that you want to replace the boiler with a combi, so that you can do away with the airing cupboard and incorporate that space  into the bathroom, for instance. 

Yes, it needs a good update. My partner thinks it might need rewiring judging by what he saw. I am also not especially fussy having things perfect. It has been on since April and just been reduced to 375k from 400k. We viewed at 400k but we were not sold at the time and we thought it was way too much money for, really, a 3 bed doer-upper that actually feels a lot smaller in real life than the photos suggest. We are now cash buyers and so thought it might be worth a second look.

saajan_12

DullGreyGuy said:

LightFlare said:

I could live with that arrangement.
bedroom 4 would become a “wardrobe” for our huge collection of clothes, coats, shoes etc 

Our current bed 4 serves that purpose now - albeit not running off the bathroom

I def wouldn’t be paying 4 bedroom price though (as others have already said)

Was thinking a dressing room too, so a walk in wardrobe with somewhere to site if non-makeup biased or with a dressing table and chair too if someone does like their makeup

Hmm sounds quite inconvenient, thinking about the practicalities of getting up and ready with one bathroom and 3 bedrooms of people.
While one person is showering, someone else could use the dressing room.. except they're locked in until the shower-er is done. So shower-er could wait for someone to grab clothes from the wardrobe room.. except they can't decide.. mess. 

baser999

Can’t see it’s been asked already but is the wall between the bathroom and bedroom 4 a partition wall? If it is, that’d suggest it’s perhaps a later modification

Flugelhorn

Annie1612 said:

GDB2222 said:

You can cram a bathroom into a surprisingly small space. Toilet at one end, and a shower at the other, with a basin in the middle. So, it looks like there’d be enough space to make a passageway into bed 4.  

There’s quite a bit of work I’d want to do to that house, and I’m not particularly fussy. Has that been factored into the price? 

You might find that you want to replace the boiler with a combi, so that you can do away with the airing cupboard and incorporate that space  into the bathroom, for instance. 

Yes, it needs a good update. My partner thinks it might need rewiring judging by what he saw. I am also not especially fussy having things perfect. It has been on since April and just been reduced to 375k from 400k. We viewed at 400k but we were not sold at the time and we thought it was way too much money for, really, a 3 bed doer-upper that actually feels a lot smaller in real life than the photos suggest. We are now cash buyers and so thought it might be worth a second look.

definitely is not a large property - that 4th "bedroom" is tiny