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larger dimensions on the floors above; and the more
rooms a tenement contains the larger the living rooms.
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 passsageway 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, all partitions other than brick are
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 are 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 are faced with a
dado of salt-glazed bricks and flettons above.
The scullery walls are 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) are fitted in the living rooms, and mantel
registers in the bedrooms.
The elevations are 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.
The roof covering for all the blocks is composed of tiles.
The courtyard is paved with tar paving.