Bathrooms Cotgrave

The estates built for the colliery gave Cotgrave a very consistent kind of bathroom: small, upstairs, with a separate WC next door, and largely unchanged since it was built.

That layout is the single biggest opportunity in this housing, because knocking the two rooms together is usually a stud wall rather than anything structural — and it turns two cramped rooms into one that actually works.

We fit bathrooms across the town from our showroom on Derby Road in Stapleford, twelve miles west, about twenty-seven minutes.

The pit housing

Beyond the WC wall, two other things come up repeatedly.

The airing cupboard typically backs onto the bathroom and takes a useful stretch of wall. Once the heating system is understood, it can sometimes be reduced or relocated, which changes what the room can hold.

And the window is usually small and on the external wall where you would otherwise want the bath. Where the room has been opened up, that frequently becomes the place for a walk-in shower instead, with the bath moved to the internal wall.

Ceiling heights here are lower than in Victorian stock, so tall storage gains less than it would elsewhere — worth being realistic about rather than specifying out of habit.