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
- Seen in the wild
- downstairs loo · half bath · cloakroom · powder_room
- Broader
- None
- Narrower
- None
- Usage
- Not measured
- Provenance
- vendoredmaterialgraph ms_room + materialsinuse PROGRAM_SPACE_TYPES, read 21 Aug 2026
- Status
- active
- Material Semantics id
- space.wc
- Note
- Deliberately NOT `broaderTermId: 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 altLabel here in the 0.2 draft and is now a term of its own for the coat room, on Getty's reading; the British domestic sense meaning this room moves to `seenAs`, where observed but non-canonical labels belong. The label is left alone so the published id keeps its name.
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | 300081124 | lavatories (rooms) | exactMatch |