No bathroom on middle floor

[TaupePanda]

We have offered on a house that is run down. It is a victorian terrace, with a living room, dining room, kitchen and downstairs bathroom off the kitchen. Upstairs there are 3 bedrooms.

It is off market and so there isn't a rightmove listing to link to or a floor plan to include unfortunately (I know MNers like a floorplan).

It needs work across the whole house including the roof. So, we're going to take the opportunity to convert the loft and add a shower room.

That would leave us without a bathroom on the middle floor. Typically this is where a bathroom would be. Would it be weird to not have one there? We intend to keep the ground floor bathroom (off the kitchen), where we'll also have our washer dryer - the same as we currently have and it works well.

We definitely do not need 3 bathrooms - we have 3 right now and use one for laundry and one to store bikes and scooters in. Occasionally someone uses a second loo but mostly we just stick to one. I do think 2 is handy but we've had quote of over £10k to add one to the middle floor, which would also mean we lose a bedroom. That doesn't feel like it makes sense.

But is that too weird? I feel like we would just get used to it and we'll be here for at least 10 years so does it really matter?

Would be interested in hearing thoughts. Thanks

It's not that unusual a setup to have a bathroom in an extension off the back of a terrace house as they were built without bathrooms originally and it is the only place you can really put it without impacting on the bedroom space.

Is it desirable ? Not for a lot of people as it means people have a trek from upstairs to the bathroom through the kitchen. But plenty of people survive living like that.

I guess it really depends what is more important to you, having 4 bedrooms in the house or 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. The top bedrooms bathroom will mostly take care of the top bedroom, so the worse trek from the top of the stairs right down to the back of the house will be taken care of.

Maybe you could put in a ensuite if one of the middle floor bedrooms is big enough, or possibly share it between two of them, or squeeze in a small toilet and shower space that can be accessed by all three. The problem is wherever you put it it is likely to disturb people if it is used in the middle of the night.

I have to say I find having to move floors for a bathroom feels odd, but the houses my DS was looking at (250-300k small family homes) a reasonable proportion had downstairs bathrooms, so many people cope with them.

You are, at least, covering the top floor now.

I think if you're going to the effort of doing a loft conversion and presumably renovating the rest of the house, it would make sense to move the bathroom upstairs.

No it's not uncommon to have the main bathroom off the kitchen in old Victorian houses but it's not really desirable either.

I think a loo would be useful if you can fit one in for anyone who is a bit older and needs to get up a lot in the night. The lack of shower/bath on the 1st floor would be slightly irritating but not that bad