Demonstration houses : a short account of the demonstration houses & flats erected at Northolt / by the Ministry of Works.

  • Great Britain. Ministry of Public Building and Works.
Date:
[1944]
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Credit: Demonstration houses : a short account of the demonstration houses & flats erected at Northolt / by the Ministry of Works. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    front doors are not contiguous. When the house is no longer required for emergency use, a few simple alterations are made to internal parti- tions. Redundant equipment is removed and should in most cases be good for re-use in another house or flat. 98. Each of the emergency flats contained within the hull of the goo sq. ft. house is of the kitchen-living room type. The main drawback of this dwelling is that the kitchen-living room is very small in size and if any clothes washing is done it must be done in this room, since a scullery or wash house cannot be provided within the main building. The ground floor flat, designed for two persons, has a bedroom 15 sq. ft. larger than the upper limit in the official range of room sizes and would therefore be more than sufficient to be used either as a bed sitting room or to accommodate a small child. The first floor flat, designed for three persons, has full standard double and single bedrooms. Table VII below gives the areas of the rooms. FLATS INTO HOUSES 99. Block 11 has been designed to include one house sub-divided for emergency purposes and another converted for permanent use. ‘This converted house is of the dining kitchen type, and is suitable for a household of five. The large bedroom of the lower flat becomes the living room; the living room of the flat becomes the dining kitchen; and the bathroom becomes the combined scullery-wash house. The living room of the upper flat becomes the principal bedroom, and the bedroom of the flat remains as a second double bedroom of No. 1 bedroom size. There is a w.c. on the ground floor and another in the bathroom, which is on the first floor. (See Table VII.) TaBLE VII. THE SuB-DIVIDED House (BLOCK 11) FLooR AREAS In square feet (including built-in cupboards where provided) RECOMMENDED EMERGENCY DWELLINGS HOUSE AFTER RANGE FOR (KITCHEN-LIVING ROOM | CONVERSION ROOM PERMANENT TYPE) (DINING HOUSING | KITCHEN GROUND FIRST FLOOR TYPE) FLOOR FLAT FLAT Kitchen-living 180-200 143 144 —— room Living room 160-180 ae vs 165 Dining kitchen 110-125 a = 145 Scullery-wash 65— 80 — — 66 house Bedroom I 135-150 165 139 144 Bedroom 2 I 10-120 ee cick 138 Bedroom 3 70— 80 — 70 70