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Much appreciated, I've got another viewing tonight so will try and grill the vendor a little. Near enough the perfect house for us apart from that worrying issue. Nightmare eh :D

There is an open staircase on the landing as the pictures show. The stairs look are quite narrow but when you get upstairs there is a small landing with 3 doors (bathroom, bedroom and office), none looked like fire doors. If them doors were to be replaced with fire doors, what else would be...

Does having fixed stairs change anything legally/issue wise rather than having a retractable ladder.

Thanks for all the replies. We like the house but it's not even like its s retractable ladder, like people have said it's a fixed staircase and clearly a part of the house. It has been sold stc previously and came back onto the market, so obviously it did cross my mind that it could be this as...

A) unsure at the moment, going to find out. B) no. Our main worry was structural issues if it was a cowboy job and maybe issues selling down the line.

I know this isnt exactly an uncommon thing. However, theres stairs up to the conversion from the landing without any sort of fire door etc. Is it advisable to try and buy a property like this or is it a minefield in terms of structural issues and purposely not attempted to be signed off. Link...