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The three-roomed tenements are arranged as a living room 13 feet by 12 feet, one large
bedroom 15 feet by 8 feet, capable of being divided into two bedrooms by a movable screen,
with separate entrances to each half, and one bedroom 13 feet by 8 feet.
The two-roomed tenements are arranged as a living room 13 feet by 12 feet, and, except
in three cases, upon each floor one bedroom 15 feet by 8 feet, capable of division as above
described. In the excepted cases the bedroom is 13 feet by 8 feet.
The one-roomed tenements are arranged as a living room and bedroom combined 13 feet
by 12 feet.
All the rooms to be 9 feet in height.
There are ten staircases, one to each dwelling, the staircase openings being 8 feet in
width.
Entering from a lobby out of the corridors and adjacent to the sculleries, water closets
slightly projecting beyond the main line of buildings are provided, two on each floor for the
joint use of the four tenements; they are thoroughly disconnected from the tenements and
have through ventilation.
The dust and ashes on each floor would be disposed of through a ventilated shoot, formed
in the angle of the lobby leading to the w.c., terminating in a receptacle placed in position
on the ground floor; two connections in the corridors on each floor.
Adjacent to the w.c.'s and leading from the corridor are the sculleries, each provided with
a double sink, so that each tenant would have the exclusive use of one sink.
In addition to the above accommodation each tenant would have the sole use for a fixed
day of a laundry placed centrally on each floor, with two entrances from the corridors and
intended for the use of the four tenements on the floor. By the proposed arrangements each
tenant would have for the day the privacy that would attach to a laundry within his own
tenement without any of the disadvantages arising from conducting washing operations
therein.
The quadrangle is laid out with a footway 6 feet wide and a carriage way of tar macadam
15 feet wide round the buildings, the central portion measuring 150 feet by 55 feet,
being enclosed with an iron railing, with entrance gates on each side, in convenient positions.
This enclosure could be laid out as a playground in cement or tar paving, or turfed,
with a border of shrubs around the outer edge.