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Bathroom at top floor?

In our old house (when I was a child) we just had a bathroom including loo on the first floor. The hot water came from a tank in the attic and we had an immersion heater. A coke boiler in the kitchen. No heating in the house and we used to have frost on the inside of the windows in winter. My sister and I used to get told off for drawing patterns in the frost. We had 2 fireplaces and we used to sit right in front of the fire in one room as the rest of the room was so cold. The other room was the sitting room and was only used when we had guests. Only a coal fire in there too. I remember my Grandmother's house had an outside loo which was absolutely freezing in the winter and I dreaded needing to go. The seat was so cold.
 
My father lives in a village in the countryside. His house was built in the 1860s for the farm labourers and as far as I'm aware it's always been inhabited by my ancestors. In fact my father was born in it. There are five houses in the row all the same. It was originally a two up (bedrooms), two down (kitchen/parlour and best room) (then!) with an outside toilet. All four rooms with an open fire grate and hearth. As there was no bathroom, a tin bath was stored in the barn which was dragged in every Sunday , placed in front of fire and filled with hot water heated on the stove. During the 30's/40's the local council or whatever it was then decided to extend all the houses in the row and build a bathroom adjoining the kitchen. After many years my grandparents decided to turn the bathroom into a kitchen and have the 'old' kitchen as a dining room. I still remember from when I was a kid there being a bath in the kitchen along side a cooker, fridge and twin tub! The thing with that, was that the back door opened up into the kitchen and back then they never locked the doors, so quite often someone popped in whilst they were bathing! In the 80's my father paid for an extension to the back bedroom for a bathroom and the bath taken out of the kitchen. My nan thought this was wonderful having a kitchen for cooking, a separate bathroom and even better an upstairs toilet that wasn't cold.
He still has his outside toilet but the area its in has been made into a biggish porch so you don't have to literally go outside now but it is still cold in there. All the open fires have been boarded up now and GCH is installed. The back door still opens up into his kitchen and the front door opens up into his living room (best room). It still has some characteristics of when it was built but luckily with the added extensions built over the years it hasn't lost much.
 
Any one old enough to remember tippler toilets My Grandmother had one and I was always frightened of falling down the hole !
CAROL
 
Well I was brought up on the level , with one bathroom with loo, when I married we lived in a flat converted from a house, the bathroom had been a pantry to the original house, we then moved into a converted inn, with a loo beside the kitchen and the bathroom, made from dividing a bedroom, you had to walk through the bedroom to get into it, we were going to take a bit of the other bedroom to create a small hall, but we moved instead, to a three bedroom house with one bathroom loo upstairs, it was the coldest house in the world, it had one coal fire in the living room for heating, it had a back boiler to heat hot water, I remember getting a frozen chicken out of the freezer 2 days later it was still frozen, I only used the bath once, I used to get up and walk half a mile to my mum who had full central heating on the level house.
We then moved to a two up two down that was 10 ft wide, there was a fabulous extension with a 25 foot kitchen and bathroom, then we moved into our town house, 3 levels, one ensuite and one bathroom on the 3rd floor, and a shower and loo on the ground floor.
Would love to have a steam room rather than a sauna maybe on the next move
 
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