Cloakroom / WC
A small volume holding a lavatory and a basin and nothing else; add a bath or a shower and it becomes bathroom.
Also called powder room, toilet.
How it connects
Cloakroom / WC typically holds Sanitaryware (product category), Tapware (product category), Sanitaryware (element) and Tapware (element).
In other taxonomies
- lavatories (rooms)Getty AAT, 300081124the same thing
- ToiletsUniclass, SL_35_80_89the same thing
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
127 terms, Entry / Foyer to Other
Record
Deliberately not a kind of bathroom. In American usage a WC is a bathroom and the edge would be clean; in British usage it is not, and the whole point of the term is the absence of bathing provision. Since the difference is exactly what a specifier needs to see, the two terms sit side by side rather than one inside the other. cloakroom was an carried as another name here in the 0.2 draft and is now a term of its own for the coat room, on Getty's meaning; the British domestic sense meaning this room moves to Seen in the wild, where observed but non-canonical labels belong. The label is left alone so the published id keeps its name.
- Also called
- powder room · toilet
- Seen in the wild
- downstairs loo · half bath · cloakroom · powder_room
- Provenance
- vendoredms_room in a materials-retrieval system (src-05) and PROGRAM_SPACE_TYPES in a project-materials database (src-07), read 21 Aug 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/space/wcKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptSpaceincoming
- typically-inSanitarywareincoming
- typically-inTapwareincoming
- has-conceptSpaceincoming
- typically-inSanitarywareincoming
- typically-inTapwareincoming
- belongs-to-axisSpaceoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetSpaceoutgoing
- typically-containsSanitarywareoutgoing
- typically-containsTapwareoutgoing
- typically-containsSanitarywareoutgoing
- typically-containsTapwareoutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | 300081124 | lavatories (rooms) | the same thing |
| Uniclass | SL_35_80_89 | Toilets | the same thing |