Loft Conversions in Warwick

Loft conversions on Warwick housing

The villas at Emscote, Myton and the Cape were built with steep slate roofs and generous ridge heights, and a conversion there often needs nothing more than rooflights on the rear slope, a new floor structure spanning independently of the old ceiling joists, and a staircase that continues the existing one up from the landing. Where the house is three storeys already, the fire regulations shape the layout: a protected stair to the front door and fire doors on the rooms off it, designed first rather than retro-fitted. A rear dormer is possible on many of these houses but in the conservation area it is a planning question for Warwick District Council, not permitted development.

Woodloes Park and the newer estates have trussed roofs, so the conversion is a structural job first: the trusses come out and a designed steel and joist structure goes in, with a rear dormer within the volume limits to give head height where the pitch is shallow. On the newest estates the roof pitch is often too low to convert usefully at all, and we will say so at the survey rather than quote a room nobody would want. Every conversion needs building regulations approval for the structure, fire safety and the stair, and our quote includes the inspections so the room is signed off as a bedroom.

What we are asked for here

• Rooflight conversions on Victorian villas with an independent new floor
• Protected stair and fire door layouts on three-storey houses
• Trussed roof conversions with rear dormers on Woodloes Park
• Honest advice where a new-build roof is too shallow to convert