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The rooms are well lighted, 8 feet 10 inches high in the clear,
and better proportioned than in many dwellings, very narrow
widths being avoided. The recognised minimum area has
been observed on the ground floor, with rather larger dimensions
on the floors above and the more rooms a tenement
contains the larger the living room. The following table
shews the average areas of rooms for the various sized
tenements:—
Living rooms. Bedrooms.
Four-roomed tenements 164 feet 118 feet.
Three-roomed tenements 170 feet 110 feet.
Two-roomed tenements 152 feet 108 feet.
Note —About 12 feet superficial of these living-rooms is due to
a passageway to scullery being thrown into room, but the
space is available for no purpose other than passage.
Each tenement has two cupboards (one ventilated for food), and
dresser shelving in addition.
In regard to construction, it is proposed that all partitions other
than brick shall be of breeze and cement concrete 3 inches
thick, and all dividing floors and staircases of steel and concrete.
The floors of living-rooms and bedrooms to be
finished with floor boards on battens nailed direct on to the
concrete, and the staircases, landings, sculleries, and w.c.'s
with granolithic paving.
The walls of the staircases and landings it is proposed should be
faced with a dado of salt-glazed bricks and flettons above.
The scullery walls are to be rendered in cement for a height of 4
feet from the floor line, and all internal walls (except staircases
and landings mentioned above) finished with washable
distemper.
Portable ranges (each with an oven and a boiler fed by cold water
cistern) will be fitted in the living rooms, and mantel
registers in the bedrooms.
The elevations are to be of Luton bricks at the base, with picked
stock facings and red brick strings and arches above, and
the top storey finished in rough cast.