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feet, and of the three-room tenements 468 square feet. All the rooms
are 8 ft. 6 ins. in height. All the tenements are self-contained—that is
to say, each has its own w.o., combined scullery and laundry, and
balcony. In each scullery a washing trough and independent copper
are provided, also a coal bunk and small gas cooking range. Each
living room which is entered from a lobby, is provided with cupboards
for the storage of food and household utensils, also with dresser and
self-setting close kitchen range. The bedrooms are provide 1 with dress
cupboards and fire-places with register stoves.
Eight bath-rooms are provided in the basement of one of the
blocks in connection with a boiler and stoke-hole. Adjacent to the
baths is a special drying-room for drying clothes, kept hot by coils of
hot-water pipes connected with the boiler. There is also in this block
a hot-water room, where tenants can obtain boiling water from a range
of kettles—the method adopted at all the Guinness Buildings.
The design of the buildings will be simple, effect being chiefly
obtained by the variety and treatment of windows and in the broken
sky lines.
All the elevations will be faced with red facings relieved by artificial
stone dressings. The floors are fire-proof throughout, constructed of
steel and concrete with floor boards laid direct thereon.
The half-basement floors will be laid with solid wood block flooring
on concrete. All partitions will be constructed of fire-proof material,
2 ins. thick. All stairs and landings will be composed of granolithic
material; and the balconies, sculleries, hearths, playgrounds, and areas
will be finished with the same material. The walls of all the rooms
will be covered with plaster, finished with alabastine, and a dado will
be formed of white glazed tiling on all walls of staircases, landings,
and w.c.'s.
Each tenant will be provided with a sanitary dust-pail, to be kept
upon the outside balcony. All the sanitary fittings, pipes, and drainage
will be of the strongest and best materials.
The 261 tenements provide 583 rooms, which at 1.6 persons per
room (the average for buildings of this class) will secure accommodation
for 933 persons, or 583 to the acre.
The Architects estimate the total inclusive cost of the buildings,
private approach roads, courtyards, and boundaries will amount to
£49,532, which works out at about £85 per room. In giving this
estimate the Architects say that the cost of the buildings has been
calculated at the same price per foot cube as the cost of the latest housing
scheme carried out by them.