House with small bathroom, how to rejig?

[Sweett00th]

Hi, our first weekend of house hunting we came across this house in good location though near train station so train noise but guessing we’d guess use to it. The bathroom very small so we left it.

Fast forward three weeks and it’s gone down by £25k, I’m reconsidering but wondering what i can do bathroom.

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-95403359.html

Not sure you can do that much but if the door opened out rather than in you could put sink on other wall and toilet a bit further over so less crammed looking.

Just realised its not a full sized bath from video, tricky without dimensions. Would a shower fit?

Other option would be to extend but that's a lot of work.

My friend has just put a sliding door in her bathroom to free up space in there- it slides into the stud wall and they fitted it themselves. Would that help?

Sliding door may help as per previous PP or maybe measure up for a corner bath? Really depends how much time you spend in the bathroom really and how tall/big you all are? My DH is stocky and we'll over 6ft and loves baths so would hate a small bath but I'm a foot smaller and petite and prefer showers so wouldn't bother me? If you weren't that into baths I'd put in a really nice walk in shower - the 2 person size ones
The rest of the house is lovely!

I'd also take out that ridiculously narrow corridor between the stairs and the dining room where it leads to the kitchen

I'd take a bit more space from the bedroom, put the bath along that stud wall and have a sliding door. Our bathroom is much smaller than that and it's fine.

My old house had almost an identical layout. Very common in the north west. We ripped out the bath for a huge double shower.

Didn’t bother us to not have a bath (even with a DD) and we sold the house for over asking in a week, so no impact on price!

We have similar layout and the whole of the 3rd bedroom is the bathroom.

Then a 3rd bed gets put up on a loft if needed

I like the sliding door idea. We do baths plus I worry I wouldn’t be able to sell if only shower. I did think maybe swap bedroom and bathroom

looking at the floorplan, it seems to me that bedroom 3 was in the past the bathroom (or it might just have been a bedroom with no bathroom upstairs). It is an unusually narrow house so it looks from the windows as if it did not follow the usual Universal Plan of small room above the front door and hall.

the previous owners have enthusiastically knocked it about a lot.

if you feel like it, you might consider having a rear extension that gave kitchen and bathroom the same floorplan (the kitchen looks extended from original)

but I think the house has been overdeveloped and is inconvenient, so will struggle to reach the value of a purpose-built 3-bed. I fear the previous owners have put too much effort and money into it and I doubt it will repay you for more.

I viewed property on this street when I was looking In croydon. I will say that an inconvenient Victorian property would always appeal over a new build for me personally but that the number of train tracks near St. Peter st is a lot higher than other bits of s. Croydes - you have both the Purley and the Sanderstead line noise. And freight trains. And the gatwick express. I would never buy on it for the Trains so be aware it will have lower appeal. Is this priced in?

For the bathroom sliding door and losing a bit of the back bedroom would work but I’d guess that you’ll not see an increase in price for the work, as the appeal of the bathroom would be countered by the smaller bedroom.