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Housing: Victorian Housing Estates

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The typical house on a Victorian housing estate

This page is presented as a For Sale brochure as the best way of doing justice to the description of a typical 1900s house on a then-modern housing estate. Based on my mother's childhood home, it outlines the general area, gives typical house plans, descriptions of rooms and facilities.

Please imagine that you are back in the early 1900s England, are in regular working class employment and are interested in taking over what was then a modern house on a modern housing estate.

The locality

The house is one of a row of a terrace of houses on an estate of similar houses, close to shops and schools.

The house

The house is shown in the photo. It is compact and terraced with all the modern conveniences expected of a Victorian and Edwardian home.

116 Lopen Road on the Huxley Estate, Edmonton, now Enfield, 1911

The house has a kitchen, scullery, front parlour and bedrooms. There is also an offroom with a bath, back and front gardens and a flush lavatory outside. There is gas lighting, a copper water heater and a coal-fired kitchen range.

Room plans

For the layout and room plans see the separate page.

The rooms

When looking over the house, you would see the following areas in the following order. They are detailed on their own pages:

Turning back into the house, you would climb the stairs to the upper floor where you would psee the rooms in the following order:

Facilities

Running water is plumbed in with a tap in the scullery; gas is laid on for lighting; heating is by open coal fires and coal-fired ranges in the kitchen and scullery; hot water is by a coal-fired copper in the scullery (or by a kettle heated on a range); the outside lavatory flushes.

Rent

The house is for rent which means that normal outside maintenance will not be your responsibility. For an estimation of the rent see the page on rents and incomes.

In practice, these houses were highly desirable at the time for working class families, so no selling was necessary. They changed hands by word of mouth.

John Cole


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