This three-bedroom mid-terrace Victorian cottage is typical of the building stock of this age in Timperley. Whilst functional the third bedroom on the first floor was too small and this family of four were sharing one bathroom. Calderpeel Architects understood that whilst one could add another bedroom to this house with a simple loft conversion this would not address the family’s needs and would undoubtedly create an imbalance between the amount of living and bed space. A loft conversion has created a new double bedroom space with an ensuite shower room housed within a new rear dormer construction. The high ceilings on the first floor allowed us to drop the floor in the loft to create the extra head height in this space without detrimentally affecting the ceiling height in the new bedroom and shower room on the first floor. The ceiling in these rooms have coffers that take the ceiling back up to original heights against the external walls to maintain the existing window head heights.