What is the name for?

[Jules Richardson]

Ours here in the US is vaguely like that - three rooms upstairs with low ceilings, but the whole portion of the roof above those rooms is a much shallower pitch so that the ceilings are flat; the outer two rooms have built-in closets adjacent to the end walls though, and inside those the ceilings and roof above follow the steeper roof angle.

It's rather nice as it's still a big floor, but it's cheaper for tax purposes than a house that had an upper floor with the same footprint as the lower (puzzling, but I wasn't going to argue with the assessor when they came round :-)

cheers

Jules

[Brian Gaff]

I don't know but my house has a curve where the eaves are which is I suspect what you mean. My house has no cavity walls either. Brian

[Brian Gaff]

I think Dormer is more traditionally used these days for added rooms in the loft space. Brian

[Brian Gaff]

Mine is not a bungalow though this is the upstairs floor. Did not actually know it had a name as such. Another weird one is where a box room has part of its end wall sloped to accommodate the stairs underneath. Brian

[Brian Gaff]

Unless you want to tile the ceiling or the wall of course, then its a pain, As mine is actually curved nobody makes curved tiles!

Brian

[Andy Burns]

Dunno, my grandparents' bungalow was like that, but given the difference between 2 storey and 1.5 storey houses, perhaps it should be called a

0.9 storey bungalow or 1.9 storey house?

[ARWadsworth]

Sounds like you would like a Barratt home then:-)

[The Natural Philosopher]

Dormer is the window, not the whole floor

[Tim Lamb]

I live in a Victorian era farmhouse. During conversion, the Architect speak for the upper rooms was *included attic*.

I have tried Googling this without success:-(

regards