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The total contract for the three blocks amounts to £17,222, and deducting from
this £650, provided for contingencies and works to adjoining properties, gives a price
of 7fd. per foot cube for the buildings complete, or £41 10s. 0d. per person accommodated.
The tenements are quite self contained, and consist of a living room of 167
feet in area, looking in every case on to the street, and fitted with well ventilated
food cupboard, dresser with potboard under, a 2 foot 6 inch self setting range
with open and close fire, a scullery 9 feet by 6 feet, approached from the living
room and overlooking the courtyard, fitted with sink and draining board, with
coal bunk for 2 cwts. under same; a six gallon copper, and a 2 foot open
cottago range, so that the scullery can bo used as a kitchen should the tenants wish.
There are no dust shoots, but a galvanized iron dust pail is provided for each
tenement. Those will bo put out on the landings by the tenants twice a week, and
the refuse removed by the Vestry's dusting department.
The bedrooms are approached direct from the living room, and in the case of the
throo-room tenements, one bedroom has an area of over 120 feet and the other over
96 feet. The two-room tenements havo a bedroom of an average area of 127 feet.
Each bedroom is fitted with a mantel register stove. The height of the rooms will
ho 8 feet 6 inches throughout. The living and bedroom walls will be plastered and
distempered in fancy tints with a darker dado and separating line. The scullery
walls are to be in Fletton bricks. Each tenement has its own w.c. disconnected from
the rooms by a short lobby. The w.c.'s are well lit and ventilated, and look on to the
courtyard.
The tenements are approached direct from the staircases, (there being no
corridors in the buildings) two tenomonts on each floor from a staircase, the entrance
to the tenement being through an iron railing and gate into a lobby, having the
living room door on the one side and the lobby leading to the w.c. on the other. The
lobby is well lit and ventilated from the staircase and by a fanlight over the w.c.
door. The object of the iron railing is to allow of the w.c. being inspected without
going into the rooms of tho tenants.
The staircases approached through an open archway from the courtyards are of
good width, easy, and well lit and ventilated, having a large window to every floor,
and an extra casement window which can be left permanently open for ventilation at
the highest point. The staircases to he finished with a glazed brick dado, and
Fletton bricks above.
The construction of the buildings will be fire proof throughout, all internal walls
being of brick, and the floors composed of iron joists embedded in concrete. Staircases
and landings will bo of granolithic.
The sanitary arrangements have been most carefully studied with due regard to
cost. Each Bcullery and w.c. is fittod with a gulley discharging into a rain water