separate loo, with just a loo

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Having a "discussion" with DH while homes under the hammer is on. (As you do). One of the properties featured is in Birkenhead, not a million miles from where he grew up. The property had upstairs one room with the bath and handwash basin, and a separate room with just the loo, no sink. This to me is the height of weird. DH thinks it's perfectly normal as that was the configuration in the house he grew up in.

Is this a Merseyside "thing"? I don't get the logic. DH said his parents before they moved managed to squeeze a teeny tiny handwashing sink into the tiny room with the loo, but the main bathroom is still just bath and sink.

That was the configuration in the house in North Yorks where I grew up (three bed semi in nice area built between the wars)

I have this configuration, but I had a teeny tiny sink put in.

Was very common growing up in the north east when friends lived in houses built particularly post-war. To be honest when you're married to someone who takes like 5 hours to have a poo - I can see the attraction.

My current house is like that. And the house i lived in before that. Oh and the one before that too.
So perfectly normal to me!

DH's Nan's house was like that. 1950's council semi in the Midlands.

One of my childhood homes (Yorkshire) had this, loo in one room and the sink in the actual bathroom

I couldn't tell you when the houses were built though, not a clue

Most houses I went in as a child in the 70s and 80s were like this
I grew up in Norfolk and had relatives in London
My childhood home was like this but my parents knocked it in to one bathroom
My sisters house is still like this

There's no chance of squeezing a sink into ours. I did look at those clever loos with a hand basin built into the cistern, but when I showed DH he couldn't see the point as we always just go next door into the bathroom and wash our hands

My house had this, we knocked through to make one big bathroom. 80’s build in Essex

The houses built in the 50s-70s that had indoor instead of outdoor loos had this layout. Presumably because people didn’t wash their hands after using the loo and in many parts of Europe they still don’t.

Parents 1950s semi has this. They did contemplate knocking through at one point but my dad didn’t want to wait for teenage me to be done in the bathroom to use the loo

This is like our house, we do have an additional loo and sink downstairs though.
We keep saying we'll add a sink, but not got round to it yet.
For us, a separate loo meant two people could use a toilet whilst someone else was showering.
I think it's a waste of time having a loo in a bathroom though.

Our house is Edwardian, so would have had an outside toilet.

Oh, and in a similar age nearby estate a friend has an odd layout. So the stairs go up, landing then more stairs at a different angle. On the landing is a loo but no sink. But no bathroom nearby either. Bathroom is upstairs (also has loo). So you either have to go upstairs to use the sink or downstairs to the kitchen. They’ve always got hand sanitiser in there but it does baffle me everyone I go.

1930s house in london i grew up in had the same. Our 1950s ex council in berks has the same but we squished an extra loo in the bathroom and a small sink in the seperate loo.

I lived in a house with a downstairs loo with no sink. We kept alcohol gel on the cistern

My mum's 1950s semi detached house, council built has a downstairs toilet with no handbasin. You have to walk through the porch to the kitchen sink to wash your hands.
Upstairs was just a bath and basin.
We've installed an upstairs toilet, no room for the sink so into the bathroom afterwards.
I do feel yuck about using the kitchen sink, so I always go upstairs.

Preston. Loo, just s loo, next to the bathroom which has bath and sink. Much better than a loo where you brush your teeth etc.! Yes it meant then going into another room (either bathroom or kitchen downstairs if someone was in the bath) to wash your hands, but you didn’t get those tiny sinks in those days, so no room.

I have one of these. I replaced the loo with one with a little sink on top which drains into the cistern. Very useful. Bit odd when someone occasionally brushes teeth in there as the next person then gets minty fresh loo water 😂.

The house I grew up in was like this when I was young. You have to remember that this was a huge step up from an outside toilet - and I don't imagine outside toilets had handbasins in them!!

Very, very common round our way - I think it's a standard layout for inter-war semis. Some have stuck a small hand basin in, some have knocked through to create a bigger bathroom but (like us) a lot of people have kept it 'as is'. It's quite handy to be able to use the loo if someone is in the bath -just wash hands downstairs.

But the 50s weren't the "olden days", someone say down and decided to design houses with the loo in a room so small it's practically a cupboard, and a separate room with a sink and bath.

It's probably so weird to me as the area I grew up in has very little 1950s housing. Lots of pre-WW1 stone build victorian houses and terraces. Lots of 70s/80s new builds. Very little from the 30s to 50s.

Just about to move into a house like this. Annoyingly the main bathroom other end of hallway. There is however sinks in two bedrooms and a decent sized downstairs toilet too.

V normal
Post war semi detached houses all designed one small loo room and bath/sink separate.
It actually makes sense, someone can use the loo whole the other person in the shower/bath.

My house has this. Built in 1955.
When we bought it we planned to knock them through but, well, 5 years and 2 kids later funnily enough we never found the money to do it