What's the deal with this bizarre layout?

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Can it be fixed? And if so, how? Please and thank you for any advice!

That's not a third bedroom!

Knock it down and start again.

Or a second actually as you walk through bed 1? Steal space from bed 3/ halls to make both proper beds accessible independently?

I think bed three was originally a good sized hallway

Is it the ground floor of a large semi originally?

It looks like bedroom 3 and its en suite have been shoehorned in, so removing those is the obvious step. Not so good if you want 3 beds though.

Red is doors, green is remove

Erghhhhhh..... awful

AND there are no measurements in 2025 there is no excuse for a floor plan this shitty

Unless this is somehow an ultimate dream location I would pass.

Also that is NOT a 3rd bedroom.
It's a walk in wardrobe at best

Was a decent sized 2 bed and some idiot has made a real bollocks of it.

So bed 3 has no window?! ( is that legal re health & safety/ fire regs???)
and to go to the toilet from bed 2 you have to walk through bed 1, thru inner hall, thru lounge, thru rear hall to the bathroom!
I’ve never seen anything so bizarre🤣

They squeezed in bedroom 3. It would work so much better if it was 2 bedroom with bedroom 3 and that ensuite being changed so there are 2 good size bedrooms with their own doors and 1 good size family bathroom.

Is it a bungalow or a flat? A bungalow could allow for a loft bedroom or an extension for a 3rd bedroom.

Eh? It looks like they've turned the hallway into an inner third bedroom and then, to get round the fact that the hallway was originally intended to give access to all the rooms in the house, knocked through the other rooms so that they are inter-connecting. Utterly bizarre. Are you considering buying this? I would worry that things have been done on the cheap and the layout is the least of the worries. DIY bodging springs to mind...

Do you need three bedrooms, OP? What are you trying to achieve with the house?

How many bedrooms do you need? If you just need two then it won’t be so bad as you can remove the third bedroom.

Thanks, all. I only need two bedrooms and it's a bungalow. The location is great, it has sea views, and the price is reasonable and would allow me to set aside a budget for renovations. I've never knocked through rooms before but do have a really good handyman who could potentially project manage the work for me.

If you only need two bedrooms:

• remove bed 3
• extend the inner hall to run to the back of the house
• new door from extended hall in bed 2 and bathroom
• block up door from bed 1 to bed 2
• reconfigure bathroom (bc you've added a new door into inner hall and will need to move bath)
• get rid of rear hall (bc you've moved bathroom door) to have more space in kitchen area.

'bedroom' three is a windowless room off the lounge?
And bedroom two is only accessible via bedroom one?

Gawd that is very strange indeed.

It’s a bodge-job extension,

Potential solutions, and the cost of those solutions, will depend on which are the original supporting walls.

There is a Facebook group that comes up on my page where experienced people offer re-work suggestions, but I can’t remember what it is called.

My suspicion is that making this really worth the price and the refurb price will be expensive.

A simple approach would be ignore ‘bedroom 3’ as a bedroom, which it clearly isn’t, combine the two bathroom spaces but make a door into bedroom 1 where the shower is shown.

You'd have to get proper plans and the likes but I'd assume it was originally a two bed place so could be turned back to one.

Trying to sell that as a three bed is ridiculous. Bedroom 3 doesn't exist and having to go through one room to get together doesn't give you two private bedrooms.

Would you want to keep the shower room or would one bathroom be sufficient?

Only two beds is much easier. Would resolve bedrooms something like this. Inner hall in bed 2 can be quest loo or en-suite.

Would extend the back there in one go to make nice access to garden and there’s a big space there splitting to two rooms plus for utility, toilet or whatever in original lounge area.

If you can get the plumbing to work - purple as an en-suite to bedroom 1. Door to bedroom 2 where current shower is. Purple at the back a bathroom accessible from the “corridor” but almost an en suite for bedroom 2. Orange as a utility/ big cupboard so the current utility can open up to be part of the living space with the windows.

hope this uploads ok - this is what I would do with the layout

Thank you so much for the diagrams. All are good but I think I like the one from @Randomesttnought simply because it would mean I can keep the walk-in shower. It does make bedroom 1 smaller, though. I wouldn't have thought of any of them (I'm terrible at visualizing spaces) so they've all been very helpful. I have a lot to mull over.

I guess the only issue if you're essentially paying for a three bed (which I don't think technically you should be, because I don't think bedroom 3 is a legal bedroom). If it's priced as a 2 bed then you're good to go :)