How easy is it to move a bathroom?

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We moved four months ago to a new home. It's an 18th century house which is G2 listed. It's got a conventional Georgian configuration of a room each side of the front door and stair case up through the middle of the house.

So on the first floor the rear rooms are off the half landing and are smaller and then the two front rooms are the large, high ceilinged rooms with the original casement windows and panelling etc.

The bathroom is one of the large first floor rooms. It is large and has a lovely 5 piece suite and is a big "wow" factor room. But, it seems a shame to me that a room of this size should be wasted on a bathroom.

The room behind the bathroom (off the half landing) is directly above the downstairs WC and the utility room and I think this would be a better room for the bathroom. This would leave the front room as a really good sized second bedroom.

Obviously the house wasn't built with a bathroom at all and this was added in the 1960's.

How easy would it be to move the bathroom back to the room above the WC and utility? Pipework is obviously in place so plumbing shouldn't be too stressful.

As it's listed I'd need listed building consent and planning permission of course.

Just musing the idea really but I'm interested in whether anyone has moved a bathroom to a different room and whether it's possible/what to look out for/is it more hassle that it's worth?

TIA

If the pipe work is still there it sounds fairly straightforward tbh. We put in a bathroom into an area that had never had one and it took about 2 weeks and 3.5k including bathroom suite.

You need to work out where the toilet waste and water pipes are and see if they could be run to the new location. If it is listed they won't want toilet waste pipes all over the outside of the building so you might have some problems there but that might be ok depending on how publicly visible they are.

Very easy if there is a waste and water easily accessed (which there should be if the downstairs WC is below the new location)

Sounds like you have water and a soil stack at that end of the house already, so not a bad idea.

Alternatively, may be cheaper and quicker so leave the bathroom where it is but expand the back bedroom into it?

Thank you all. Yes, the waste and water pipes are already there so it shouldn't affect the exterior. The pipes have been run upstairs through the back room to the front bathroom, so if anything it would simplify the plumbing.

I had thought about that Plumbsofwrath but because the back rooms are accessed from the half landing the levels are different and that would be more complicated to fix - the back end of the house is lower than the front by about 2m.

Thank you for the timescale and cost estimate Treacletoots that's helpful.

I'm pleased to hear that you all don't think it's impossible so I'll have a chat with the conservation officer in the planning dept and see what he says. If he says we're likely to get consent I'll get some builders round to quote

Thanks again.