The lowest rent for a Florence
Park house in 1935 was 13/6d, (approximately 67p). Some were more
expensive, 15/6d or 17/6 a week, (approximately 77p and 87p respectively),
depending on whether they had an extra bedroom, or a hallway and a drive
and were semi-detached. Moss was a Welshman
and all the roofs of the houses he built were roofed in Welsh slate. The
roofs were hipped,
like most houses in the 1930s, but the slate used by Moss on his roofs
made them very distinctive among the acres of red roof tiles used by other
builders. Typically, they also had a
bay window on both floors and the windows
of the bay were sash
rather than the usual casement,
again making the houses very distinctive. The doors,
now rather unusual, were typical
of the 1930s, with the windows towards the top of the door.
Like many
houses on other estates at this time, the façade
of the houses, that is the front wall of the house, was given different
treatments. In most cases it was faced in brick to the bottom sill of the
ground floor window and thereafter it was covered in rough
cast, as were the other walls of the
house. However there was some variety in the treatment of the façade.
The grandest houses on the estate, mainly in Florence Park Road, were faced
in brick and their windows and porches were given decorative white
plaster mouldings, and houses elsewhere in the estate also displayed
different patterns, apparently at the
whim of the master bricklayer.
