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The half basement is as attractive as the ground floor, and there is a long
slope planted with evergreens in front of the windows.
The building is of fireproof construction throughout, the floors being formed
with steel and concrete, and the pavings and landings finished with granolithic
material. The walls of the staircases are faced with white tiles, ensuring
an absolutely smooth and clean surface, requiring no annual expenditure for
painting or distempering. The floors of the W.C.'s are laid with mosaic, and
the walls tiled in the same way as the staircases.
The buildings contain:—3G three-room tenements and 34 two-room tenements,
containing 176 rooms, and will house 352 persons.
All the tenements are self-contained, that is to say, each tenement has a
separate scullery and W.C., and every tenement is entered from a lobby so as
to give absolute privacy to the tenant. From this lobby access is obtained to
the scullery and AV.C., and they are thus completely cut off from the living
rooms. These lobbies are provided with a shelf and hat and coat hooks.
The scullery, which is used as a kitchen, is fitted up with a washing trough
and an independent copper for washing clothes, a larder, dresser, coal bunk, a
small gas cooking range, and also an improved form of range. By lifting up a
shutter in the middle of this range the fire can be transferred into the living
room which adjoins the scullery, so that the tenants need only light one fire,
which will serve for cooking and heating purposes.
Every bedroom is fitted with a dress cupboard with shelves and pegs for
hanging clothes thereon.
The buildings are lighted with incandescent gas.
The Superintendent is situated in a four-storey block adjoining the mainbuildings.
The basement of this block contains a large drying room to enable
the tenants to dry their clothes, for which a small charge is made; also twelve
baths, a heating chamber and workshop. The baths are also open for the use
of residents in the vicinity upon the game payment as the tenants.
At the rear of the building there are situated a large number of perambulator
and bicycle sheds for the use of the tenants, for which a charge of Id. or
2d. per week is made.
The living rooms have an average area of 160 feet. The bedrooms of the
two-room tenements have an average area of 125 feet. The two bedrooms of
the three-room tenements have an average area of 108 feet and 102 feet
respectively.
The rents have been so adjusted as to make the undertaking self-supporting,
involving no charge upon the rates.
At the end of the year 1909, Prospect Terrace was completed, and opened
by His "Worship the Mayor (Councillor E. T. Heron, J.P.).
Thus the triple scheme of the Prospect Terrace and Brantome Place areas,
supplemented by the Great College Street site, is now complete, the original
representation having been made in 1891.