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Downstairs Bathrooms
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I understand why older houses have downstairs bathrooms as they have been extensions and conversions etc.
But what I don't understand is why post War houses would have been built with downstairs bathrooms.
Can anyone explain the logic of this please?
But what I don't understand is why post War houses would have been built with downstairs bathrooms.
Can anyone explain the logic of this please?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I was brought up in a house (built in1953) with a downstairs bathroom and I regarded it as the norm. (Largely, I still do). It made sense then to minimise the distance from the kitchen (where the 'copper' provided the only means of heating water) to the bathroom, rather than having to carry all those buckets of water upstairs.
Even when there's another way of heating the water, having the bathroom downstairs means that you can have more bedrooms upstairs, which is imp0ortant for people with large families who have to live in fairly small houses.
Even when there's another way of heating the water, having the bathroom downstairs means that you can have more bedrooms upstairs, which is imp0ortant for people with large families who have to live in fairly small houses.
Following on from all these posts, an upstairs bathroom was also a mark of status as well as costing more to install and taking up bedroom space. So many council houses continued to have downstairs bathrooms until the 1950s. A compromise was implemented in many privately owned or privately rented terraced houses, comprising keeping the back-yard toilet but converting the back bedroom into a bath and washbasin bathroom.
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