Stairs - Within a room?

ArtieBucco · 29-01-2022 5:48pm #1

Hi all,

Was wondering if its possible to place or have a staircase leading down from first floor (corridor and landing in place) into a room on ground floor, for example a kitchen/dining space. Would it be a fire regulation concern? Would it be a bad design feature in your opinions?

picture attached to show what i am thinking of?

Thanks

DOCARCH · 29-01-2022 6:09pm

It's fine, as far as I can recall, as long as it's not a kitchen and bottom of stairs is within 4 metres of an external door (for escape purposes). That's from memory....open to correction on that!

radiotrickster · 29-01-2022 6:18pm

My partner and I are in the process of buying a house and I'm certain that when we were viewing houses at the beginning, we saw a home with a similar layout to the second image.

I'm not an official or anything but I can't imagine there are regulations against it outside of what the above poster has said.

ArtieBucco · 29-01-2022 6:33pm

Thanks guys, just that someone asked my opinion on having stairs leading down from their master bedroom into their open plan kitchen/dining space. My first reaction was no, stairs into kitchen is a no go...

Cheers!

houseyhouse · 30-01-2022 12:27am

It can also be a problem for noise. We lived in a house where the stairs were in the living room. Had to keep the tv very low at night because the sound travelled up to the kids’ bedrooms.