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My house has this, it was very common at the time.
I thought it'd be a massive pain but it's really not, you hardly even notice it unless you're planning to rent out one of the rooms.
What would be the point in turning it back to into a room? It's not really a bedroom as you've got to walk through another so it's viewed as a "+1" or walk in wardrobe.
When I was looking to buy we turned down several decent enough houses because they had downstairs bathrooms, they're rubbish & impractical.
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For reference, our old place was the same general space; the previous owners had flipped the stairs to make it 3 properly independent bedrooms. The bathroom downstairs does invariably put people off, but I think that would be offset by the more usable upstairs layout. The whole bathroom downstairs thing is a bit of a puzzle to me. There are just as many advantages as there are disadvantages, but most people only seem to see the downside.
For what it's worth, our various neighbours had all of the different possible arrangements, and ours sold for the most.
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So... we are looking at a typical small victorian terrace, with the three bedrooms upstairs and a downstairs bathroom at the back of the house through the kitchen.
Except, the owners have converted the third room (which is accessible only via the second bedroom) to a bathroom too. I don't understand this, as you still need to have a bathroom downstairs for guests in the front bedroom, or reverse the stair case and create a corridor to the upstairs bathroom by making the bedroom smaller.
My immediate thought is to convert the bathroom back to a bedroom and research suggests that will improve the value of the house? Do people really hate downstairs bathrooms that much? And how much does it cost to cap all the plumbing and convert a bathroom to a normal room?