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of four flats.

Photograph of a model of the building showing the Macdonnell Rond frontage.

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Macdonnell Road is a particularly desirable residential locality, being conveniently close to the centre of town and yet at a high enough level to afford a very pleasant outlook of the Harbour and Kowloon and the corridor giving access to the flats at The lower basement has drivers' Botanic Gardens, and provide excel- the north of the building, the main quarters under the car park in the lent breezes from the Peak district entrance and lift halls being at the northern portion of the building, with to the south of it. A number of fine south. The twenty-four flats

adjoining kitchens and stores. apartment buildings have been com- contained in six floors, each floor pleted on this thoroughfare since the

On the ground floor, access to the war, and the latest addition to them being similar in design and consisting building is up a few steps to a lobby is this new block at Nos. 35 and 37,

leading to the entrance hall which which is expected to be completed

contains the main staircase and the A driveway at the south-west towards the middle of 1954.

two lifts. There is one apartment on corner of the site leads through be- each side of the front block. Down The site lies to the north of Mac- tween the two blocks to covered car the corridor opposite to the entrance donnell Road, with its west boundary parks occupying most of the upper are the other two apartments on this formed by Calder Path; it is about basement areas under the two blocks, floor. Servants' quarters on both 16,600 square feet in area, and slopes and then out at the south-east corner sides of this corridor form a link steeply down from south to north. of the site. In the centre of the front between the southern and northern block at this level is the meter room blocks. Two terraces on the road and the lift well, while in the front frontage flanking the lobby are centre section of the rear block is the reached by wrought iron gates in the service staircase.

lobby walls.

The building forms an 'H' on plan, with the cross-bar consisting of servants' quarters about a central

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Another

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of the model

showing

the building

as it will

look from

the north-east.

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The dimensions of the front and rear apartments vary slightly, though the total floor areas are approximate- ly the same. The accommodation and layout of the various rooms is very similar in each of the two types of apartments. The accommodation consists of a living room, a dining room, three bedrooms and two bath- rooms; all of the bedrooms open off a bedroom hall, in which there is a linen cupboard; the master bedroom has its own bathroom opening direct- ly off it, while the other two bedrooms share a bathroom opening off the bedroom hall. The kitchen adjoins the dining room and has a door lead- ing directly to it for convenient service; a second door from the kit- chen opens to the entrance lobby of the apartment and so allows the house servant quickly and easily to attend to callers. The servant's room is reached from the kitchen and has a small balcony and separate lavatory. The apartments at the rear of the building have a balcony opening off the living room.