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No. 35, Lower Mall. One room of this house is used as
a shop, the rest of the house is used for storing old iron and
general rubbish. It is kept in a very dirty condition excepting
the shop. The walls are damp, ceilings dilapidated, windows
small and fixed, light bad. Hat infested. There is no yard or
open space connected with the house, and no through ventilation.
The water closet at end of covered way is ventilated
very inefficiently by an air-brick.
Nos. 33 and 34, Lower Mall (these are two-roomed
houses). The front walls are out of perpendicular. The
walls are damp and the floors are not ventilated. There is no
through ventilation which gives them all the bad qualities of
back to back houses. The roofs are defective allowing dampness
to appear in the ceilings which are also defective. The
window sashes are decayed.
At the rear a small portion of Banner's Yard appears to
have been cut off and enclosed as a yard. This measures only
6 feet wide and there is only one water closet for the two
houses.
No. 30, Lower Mall. This house has one room and a
scullery on the ground floor and one room on the first floor,
neither of which has through ventilation. There is a small
attic which is well ventilated.
The level of the ground floor of this house is 1 foot 8 inches
below the street level. The only window is small and rises
practically from the roadway. This condition in addition to
the proximity of the opposite houses (12 feet 6 inches) makes
the lighting of this room bad and ventilation impossible, the
front room is practically in a well.
The walls are damp. The ceiling in the attic sagged.
There is a fair amount of space behind the house.
No. 29, Lower Mall. This is a four-roomed house. There
does not appear to be a damp proof course, but the walls
appear to be hollow. The level of the ground floor is 9 inches
lower in the front than the roadway and 16 inches lower at the
back. The front room is badly lighted owing to the small
window space and obstruction to light from the opposite
building. The ceiling of first floor back is unsound and the
same remark applies to front room ground floor. There is a
fair amount of space behind the house and there is a separate
water closet.