Apologies if this question already exists elsewhere, but I haven't seen it.
I'm going to show my owner-builder virginity and ask what'll probably be an easy question to answer. I've seen a home (not in the flesh yet) with a brick ground-floor level and wooden cladding on its upper level, and judging by the agent's description I suspect the bottom level may not be of legal height for accomm purposes.
Before I arrange a viewing I wanted to ask the 'more knowledgables' if I could realistically raise the level of the upper level. I'd like to increase the value of the property by building more rooms underneath. In the same way that you can restump and raise wooden structures, is it very different in this case? As we're not talking about significantly adding weight to the existing bones I would have thought it wouldn't be a problem from a structural perspective.
Thanks