Re the wiring. Notice how they dry lined all walls, and make a point of showing the original stone on the
staircase. This is to meet energy planet saving requirements, insulate and dry line (plasterboard ftd) everything! THe wall with the windows is north facing, and external, fair enough. Wall with the mural, west and attached to neighbour, stairs on the south wall, again attached.
Eat precious floor space, create a banal interior with hidden wiring built in, to comply and possibly save youtube information banners and the planet.
(re design, I would have advanced the stairs more into middle of kitchen lounge and has a wc/cloak room to the left as you enter.
THe lack of ballustrade in that top floor is a sign of bad design/shortcuts/lack of giving a fukc.
Also, the state insist on walls being dry lined but, don't insist of insulation standards above 30cm of (I don't know actual figure) of loft insulation. The roof should be wood panelled! for best acoustic and thermic properties [physical properties not brick and morter ones)
Chipboard or better still 120cm (4 foot) long, inch thick softwood planks laid across the rafters. Then a breathable membrane, then 4inches of hard foam panel, purlins (battons) added and tiles hung. On the underside internal, if you want to cut out more acoustic noise and add insulation, a layer of hemp or the thick dense rockwool, the nplaster board.
I'd be wary of buying that house without knowing what they'd done to the roof, and what's annoying is a) the costly diagnostic will not tell the buyer, b) if they've done the minimum, in line with illogical building regs that insist internal walls should be insulated but don't worry too much about what's hidden in a roof, it's expensive and 'wasteful for the planet' to make it how it could and should have been done at the time.
If the room hits 30 degrees in summer you'll not be doing much sleeping up there .. although at least with a velux the heat can easily exit, but then you have to put up with noise.
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