Interior Plans

[cherrybea]

How can I find the original layout for our home? We've got the deeds and expected the interior plans to be in with them. Our house is pre war, traditional type. Thanks.

[jackthehat]

Can I ask what you want them for ?

[buildersmate]

Pretty impossible.
Deeds / LR record are to do with the ownership of the land. The fact that a house is sitting on that land is merely incidental.
Need for planning permission started in 1948 so no point looking at the local authority planning office on a pre-war house.
If you know the name of the builder and it was a sizeable local company you might be able to track it down.
Why can't you just get a plan drawer to redraw what exists now? - or has it been so modified that it isn't obvious?
Is there a similar unmodified house in the street?

[jackthehat]

Depending upon where cherrybea lives, BM, I was going to suggest that she/he may like to secure the services of an Architectural Technologist (me! me!) to give her/him the benefit of their/my advice.............:o)

The original footprint of most houses is usually fairly easy to determine, especially if it is a traditional 3-bed semi...........

[cherrybea]

Thanks both! Our house is on the end of a block of 5,all built at the same time. An older neighbour who was born in one of the houses told us our houses were built with bathrooms and inside lavs but we cant understand it as there was an outside lav when we moved in. Another thing is, there's no old coalhouse/shed so where the coal was kept is a mystery. Im wondering if the house was originally a 4 bedroom house with no bathroom as when we took out the old bath there was skirting board behind it. My friends next door found the same. Im not making much sense am I :-(

[jackthehat]

Seriously, though..........
Where abouts in the UK are you ? It may be possible to track down the original look of your home due to 'regional variations', etc.