SEVERN
ROAD
HOUSES
One of the three rebuilt houses.
the bathroom and toilet and the
EFORE the war Nos. 403,404 approved.
and 405 The Peak, situated in
The accommodation provided in dry room.
BEF Severn Road, were large houses in each flat, after conversion, consists The dining room is to the left of single occupation. All three build- of a living room, a dining room, the hall, and separated from it ings were badly damaged during two bedrooms, large covered when necessary by sliding doors; hostilities and, at the end of the verandahs, and a kitchen. The there is a service hatch to the war, only the external walls were main entrance door is flanked by adjoining kitchen, which has a left standing. In 1949 alternative flower beds, and it is necessary to
separate entrance to a service schemes were prepared for (1) climb some fourteen steps to reach staircase. To the right of the en- rehabilitating these houses each the ground floor level. Entrance trance hall, and entered by double as an individual residence and (ii) into each flat is through a hall doors, is the living room; this conversion of each house into two over 200 square feet in area; from room has a large fireplace at one semi-detached houses. Later a third this hall it is possible to enter the end of it, on each side of which scheme was prepared to convert living room, the dining room, and are cabinets. Access to the en- each house into two flats, and it the kitchen, and through a small closed verandah, which runs the was this scheme that was finally inner hall to the two bedrooms, whole length of the north wall, is through three sets of French windows.
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Plan of the ground floor flat.
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A door in the entrance hall leads to the bedroom hall, from which open the dry room, the bathroom, separate toilet, and the two bed- rooms, Each bedroom is fitted with a large built-in wardrobe, and has double doors leading to the verandah. The bedroom verandah, although one with that of the living room, may be com- pletely shut off from it by means of a door set in a partition separat- ing the two.
The first floor flats are similar to those of the ground floor except that there is a small cloakroom, opening off the hall, in the space which is occupied by the staircase in the lower flats.
The servants' quarters are all on the ground floor in a wing which
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