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28 HOUSE BUILDING.
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famil ILondon y , con ; large trast buildings with our , o arrow f whic t h enemen each fl ts oor of accommoda two rooms t es p
houses wi [ Edinburg th an came infinitude h unt into il som fashion of e stairs hun under d . The y the ears forei title ago gn , of when sty " Self p t revai he -contained narrow led in
house would . " Had e been it been most " descr Stair- i containing tivefor the house main , " the featur appellation e of the
modern style is the system p , staircases necessary for the _accommoda houses five t st ion ories of a hi number hfar o more f persons room . is In a row ted of in ten seara such te p
staircases than in a block g , five stories high containing 20 rooms m on iddle each and floor dividing , with - the large floor into stone two staircase houses ascendin . These g houses in the
bu wou t l if t each he back have ones 10 rooms were d as ivided large so as as our to b ordinar e no larger y fron t t rooms our ,
t occu o rdinary pying back l the staircase ones space , th now w oul filled mi d g ht by h and the three somel separate smal y provided l addi staircases tional for ; by ones for a
space genera of 20 feet by 20 . There are a few houses constructed on this lan in London .
Wishing to judge of their adaptibility to the p wants of both Waterlow rich and p ' s new , we build paid ings in visi Firisbury t in the and same also wee to k Victoria to Alderman street ,
and Ashley place in Pimlico . In Alderman , Waterlow ' s lodging houses fect little found house tw en 4 ty or 5 rooms tisans' families exceeding , l we h l p ossessin ventilat g a
firep per laces in every room , water laid , on to every y kitchen , and , all needful domestic offices contained within each house ; the
rooms opened one from another , giving , when the doors were met open in , a the sensa houses tion o of f s the pace and . air The iness iral we staircase have never sheltered before
from rain but open to the poor air , opened sp on to covered , balconie § each which tenement on each floor appeared led to to four enj front a doors much ; but greater the inmates degree of of
privacy than is found in the small oy courts and narrow streets where the respectable labouring class live when _thej' have the
week comfort for of one a room separate in a house lodg . ing For -house those with who a kitchen would and pay oth 4 s . er a
offices all in common , the transition to a three-roomed complete house After for satisf 5 s . 6 ing d . a ourselves week , seems that one the of sing the le- greatest floor house luxury answered ..
well for the artisan y classwe visited Victoria _street and Ashley place , and ascending the , broad stone staircase , found ourselves twelve
roomed ourselves ringing residence at back the in front . some Once door old inside of country a , handsomel we w mansion ere y tempted furnished , so comfortable to believe
did the long quiet passages , with suites of rooms opening one
28 House Building.
28 HOUSE BUILDING .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 28, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/28/
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