Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on April 14, 2003 at 09:48:40 from 62.252.32.6 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Re: BECKFOOT layout - arrangements for eating posted by John Nichols on April 13, 2003 at 22:58:49:
I agree about what fun this subject has been.
Until the late 1980's the Building Regulations REQUIRED that there should be a lobby of some sort between a wc and a 'habitable room'. It certainly couldn't open straight off a kitchen, dining or living room - not a bad rule and perhaps a pity that it has now been relaxed. But a door from a wc into a hall was acceptable and I suspect pretty universal in houses from the 20s to the 80s.
In my parents' converted Lake District farmhouse in Ennerdale in the 1960s the Aga was in the kitchen. We had breakfast in there but all other meals were eaten in the adjoining dining room - and they weren't posh and certainly had no servants.