separate loo, with just a loo

[DonkeyHohtay]

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.

Mine is currently like that, i find it weird myself. Im in London.

Mine is like that. Late 40s 3 bed house. There was originally an extra toilet.... In the outhouse but we knicked that down.
Some houses on the street have knocked them through. We can't fit a downstairs loo in so have left it separate as it is convenient with 2 teen girls that someone can be in the bathroom at the same time as someone is on the loo.

It is unusual but presumably someone living there would go to the toilet and then go into the bathroom to wash hands. Thinking about it, both my parents and my in laws houses had the same, I expect a lot of older houses did.

If you're keen on the house, could you not have a small wash hand basin installed in the loo? A lot of people would knock down the wall between loo and bathroom and make it all one (quite expensive I imagine), then have another toilet elsewhere, - or 'cloakroom' as they are euphemistically called.