Is this possible for three story houses?

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I know that some houses have three stories, i.e. the ground floor, the first floor and an attic but I’ve often wondered why the third story (which is the attic), is so small. Usually, attics are only one room or one room and a mini bathroom. Why isn’t it an entire new floor with several bedrooms and a full scale family bathroom etc?

have you ever heard of or is it possible to have a three story house in which the attic is not some minor floor - it’s literally a duplicate of the first floor in terms of size?

I’m not asking about in terms of mansions, but literally regular middle class homes have attics even some terraced houses have attics; so have you seen a “normal” house with three stories and the third story be a full-on floor not just one room?

like imagine having a four bedroom house and having two bedrooms on the first floor and the other two bedrooms on the second floor without the second floor being some pokey attic.

I grew up in a 70s terraced town house, that was three normal floors (in that the loft was above the top storey and just the loft, not converted)

We have a three story townhouse and each floor is the same floor plate (we then have a loft too).

I have a town house . It is three stories and then an attic on top of that.

Partly struggling with spelling here - it's storey and storeys.

As for having a small 2nd floor or not, that is down to whether you have dormers.

Clearly if you try to fit a habitable room into an attic space, it's going to be small. If you want to have a big room, you need dormers.

Our top storey room is 6m x 6m - the biggest room in the house.

A lot of new builds are like this, 2 normal sized floors above the ground floor. It means developers can charge the cost of a bigger house but on a tiny footprint. They usually have minuscule gardens too. They look really weird when there are a lot of them, like they're too tall.

It depends on the situation. A converted attic to make a second floor is restricted by the structure of the roof. When they do it in new builds, it’s cheaper to use the roof space of a house to form the second floor rather than building another level of external wall. Town houses usually have a full second floor because structurally it is easier to build a whole second floor in a row of houses.

Of you are building your own home, there is no reason you can’t build a full second floor, if you have the money to do it.

Struggling with the spelling here

Oh come on, it’s not hard to work out what is being discussed. Just be honest if you want to pick on someone for a spelling mistake.

Yes definitely possible, although quite unusual.

my friend lives in a house like this, it was built in 1800’s so very old and has lovely high ceilings. Massive stair cases and enormous landings.
ground floor has kitchen, dining room and living room
1st floor has 3 bedrooms 1 bathroom
2nd floor has 4 bedrooms
attic in top is also enormous - old fashioned and you could live up there.

edited to add it definitely wouldn’t pass building regulations if it was built today.

I grew up in a victorian house. It was 3 Bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs on the 1st floor but the Bedrooms were massive. My parents converted the attic into 2 Bedrooms, a bathroom and an office. I think most houses with normal sized rooms just dont have the space in the attic when you take into account the slopes in the roof.

Partly struggling with spelling here

The only thing you seem to be struggling with are your manners here.

Your friends house sounds amazing!

The ones on my road have the same footprint

ground floor - toilet room, garage, utility, 1 bedroom
first floor - kitchen, living room
Second floor - 3 bedrooms, bathroom, and an en suite

Floor plan attached

What? Two storeys and an attic is not the same as three storeys 🤷‍♀️. An attic is smaller because of the slope of the roof, usually. Three storeys could also have an attic and it would also be smaller due to the roof slope, but it would be three storeys and an attic. The only way that’s not the case is in a flat roofed house - but then that wouldn’t be an attic, it would just be the top storey of the house, however many storeys that is.

We used to live in a 3 storey Victorian house. The ground floor was a double living room with a large kitchen diner, first floor 3 beds one bathroom and the 3rd floor 2 beds one bathroom. Ceilings all proper heights. Our house was very typical for the area - lots of Victorian/Georgian houses - with 3/4 storeys

Ours is 1910. 3rd floor are proper floor print room and lose very little had height even tough they are built into the roof, that is there is no attic above them. They had a stupidly tiny tight turn staircase to them all boxed in so assumed they were servants rooms. We put a proper staircase in which has improved matters no end.

This Isn’t my house, but is a new build (approx 20 years ago) 3 storey house with 3 proper floors.

Three real storeys here,
Ground floor: sitting room dining room small sitting room, toilet, kitchen, conservatory, utility, walk in pantry, boiler/drying room.
First floor: three bedrooms, en-suite, bathroom, store room
Second Floor: two bedrooms, shower room and toilet.
There is an attic but we have enough space without converting it.

Also on the ground floor there is a small study with an identically sized room above it on the first floor.

At the moment there is a hole in the ceiling of the ground floor room and on the floor of the room above as the lift is being fitted on Tuesday. Mega excitement! 20 stairs to get to our bedroom in the first floor. I’m 81 and feeling it!

we live in a three bed 1930s semi. From the front it's two storeys but because it's built into a hill at the back it's three. The basement is technically underground at the front of the house but has double doors out to the back at the back. That is our living room and downstairs bathroom.

Ground floor (or first floor...) is a small snug, dining room and kitchen, and upstairs three bedrooms and a bathroom.

There is a loft that could be converted but we don't need or want to.

If converting it depends on the roof pitch. Ours is high - noticeably higher than others on our street - which means the loft rooms aren’t cramped at all even though it’s a Victorian terrace. Others are necessarily poky, particularly if they don’t get dormers.