Housing up-to-date (companion volume to the Housing handbook) . rlined with ferolsheeting, and lined with maichboarding covered with Cannon andHalTs distemper. 80. 4-in. timber framing covered with insulating paper and weatherbearding. 85. 6-in. concrete and timber. The exhibits may be divided into freaks, rubbish, swindles, poorbut honest, and a sufficient number both good and honest to allow theexhibition to be pronounced, in spite of all shortcomings, a remarkableand epoch making success. The average cost of municipal cottageshas been reduced by 20 per cent, since the holding of the exhibit
Housing up-to-date (companion volume to the Housing handbook) . rlined with ferolsheeting, and lined with maichboarding covered with Cannon andHalTs distemper. 80. 4-in. timber framing covered with insulating paper and weatherbearding. 85. 6-in. concrete and timber. The exhibits may be divided into freaks, rubbish, swindles, poorbut honest, and a sufficient number both good and honest to allow theexhibition to be pronounced, in spite of all shortcomings, a remarkableand epoch making success. The average cost of municipal cottageshas been reduced by 20 per cent, since the holding of the exhibitionas the result of the stimulus given to cheaper building. ^57 LETCHWORTH EXHIBITION (1905). Cheapest Cottage in the Exhibition, Cost £120. Mr. Cloughs Cottage has il inch brick hollow external walls on groundfloor, and above this tile-hung vertical framing 4 feet 3 inches high on the firstfloor to the springing of the roof. One bedroom on ground floor. Stairsenclosed only by matchboarding. Total area of coitage 455 sqare feet. Costabout 4d. per cubic Note.—The plans are reversed, so that the front is at the ? -4 _ y * * 1 r^ f
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