Hi. what are you planning on doing with the existing kitchen, study, utility, loo etc? Do you want to keep some of these spaces or need a play room for example or extra bed? I assume the reason behind this is access from the kitchen to the garden? If not I would make the kitchen into open plan living upstairs and have a "formal" lounge or comfy tv room and study downstairs which would be a cheaper option.

This isn't intending to make much change up stairs. I would suggest (1) adding a wood and brick porch (2) move the kitchen to the back, creating a n open kitchen family space and put a formal living/ reception space at the front (3) depending on the ceiling height moving stairs on the side just after the toilet will make a mini u shape, which means the stairs will start with a landing by the end of the toilet and you might end up loosing what seems to be a master bathroom cause of the stairs height restriction ( someone will needd to visit the house and take measurements to get a full picture). The best option will be to have an extension of a minimum 1.5m; this will allow you to move the master to the back of the house with ensuite on the wall udjucent to the stairs. Another option you might want to consider is removing the downstairs toilet, put stairs about two metres or so from the front door and then put the toilet under the stairs. this will allow you to have the whole left side of the house to do whatever you want to do with. Good luck.

Hi all, Thank you so much for all the helpful comments and suggestions, and sorry that it's taken me so long to respond - house renovation and work have been keeping us on our toes! This has become a long post, so a quick reminder - we were looking to renovate and rewire our 60s house to update it and also make it more wheelchair friendly downstairs for when my mother-in-law comes to visit. We employed an architect and came up with what turned out to be an 'aspirational' design (much more than the budget!) so we ended up deciding to split things into two stages: Stage One to add a downstairs wetroom for accessibility, remove chimney throughout and add a porch Stage Two to do the extension across the rear, removing the conservatory to open out a large kitchen/diner and add a utility room The layout below shows both Stages One and Two as complete. Bits shown in red are existing walls which have been/will be removed (apart from the wall in red in the seating area below which is between the existing kitchen and dining room - that's a mistake). So.....the building work is now done - hurray! Stage One is complete, we are much poorer, and we now need to decorate the whole house :-) Some before and after photos below - please bear with the terrible photography skills. The rooms aren't big enough to allow for expansive photos!: We've re-plastered throughout, apart from in the kitchen and upstairs bathroom, as we'll deal with those later. Current challenge is deciding how on earth to pick paint colours and flooring throughout.... Anyway - hopefully that gives you a sense of where we've got to. Best wishes

In my opinion the way you maximise the value of this house is by restoring a traditional layout and making the entrance as impressive as possible. I would move the stairs all the way up the building to create as much room as possible at the back for principal rooms. I would make more of the attic level and I would have an upstairs laundry room in order to have a luxurious large hall which is probably one of the things that originally sold the house to you