The plan of the houses

Most properties on the estate had roughly the same plan. Downstairs there was a living room, a kitchen and a larder, and a bathroom with WC. Upstairs there were 3 or 4 bedrooms. The plan was like that of the council houses of the time in that there was only one living room and that the rooms were quite small, sometimes too small for their function. The living room could be as small as 10ft 2" by 8ft 6", (approximately 3m by 2.6m), and given that this was the room where a family of four or five was supposed to live, plus perhaps a lodger, this provided only limited space for all those people to eat, sit and relax and listen to the radio. The kitchens and the bathrooms were similarly cramped, as they were in the council houses of the period. Nevertheless the houses, much lighter than 19th century terraces, such as those found in Jericho, and new with all mod cons, must still have been attractive to their first tenants who were probably moving in from cramped and even more expensive digs elsewhere.