Hello All!
We have a Victorian terraced property in Oxford, looking to do a side return. The property is strange as it has the main house section, a small narrow kitchen extension, leading onto a narrow bedroom extension, all long and narrow, with a side alley leading back to the sitting room window. We'd like to do a side return, opening up the kitchen/diner, but going no further. The issue is, half of the kitchen has a bathroom above it, so we'd need steels. I attach pics of what we'd like to do.
My questions are:
1: Do I need an architect? I've been quoted c. £3000, which is horrifying.
2: I've heard I only need an architect 'technician' - but I can;t find one - google seems to only bring up architects. Is this a thing?
3: How much do you reckon it will cost. We have a budget of about 40k - have been quoted between 40k-90k and am unsure if it's feasible.
4: are there any tips to keeping this very low cost??
(you'll see from pic here and footprint attached that the ground floor bathroom would need it's roof altered too, as they are in one 'shed roof style' block, but the extension cannot go that far due to regs. So the shape is jinked)
Many thanks!
Sam
