OFFICIAL DESCRIPTIVE AND ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. Ill
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT.
Model houses for four families, at the Cavalry Bar-racks, Hyde Park, in connexion with the Exposition ofthe Works of Industry of All Nations, built by command
of His Royal Highness, Prince Albert, President of theSociety for Improving the Condition of the LabouringClasses.
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His Royal Highness has had this building raised on hisown account, with a desire of conveying practical in-formation calculated to promote the much-needed im ■provement of the dwellings of the working classes, andalso of stimulating visitors to the Exhibition, whoseposition and circumstances may enable them to carryout similar undertakings, and thus, without pecuniarysacrifice, permanently to benefit those who are greatlydependent on others for their home and family comforts.
In its general arrangement, the building is adapted forthe occupation of four families of the class of manufac-turing and mechanical operatives, who usually reside intowns, or in their immediate vicinity; and as the valueof land, which leads to the economising of space, by theplacing of more than one family under the same roof,111 some cases, renders the addition of a third, and even
of a fourth story desirable, the plan has been suited tosuch an arrangement without any other alteration thanthe requisite increase in the strength of the walls.
The most prominent peculiarity of the design is thatof the receding and protected central open staircase,witli the connecting gallery on the first floor, foi*med ofslate, and sheltered from the weather by the continuationof the main roof, which also screens the entrances to thedwellings.
The four tenements are arranged on precisely the sameplan, two on each floor.
The entrance is through a small lobby, lighted from theupper part of the door.
The liciug room has a superficial area of about 150 feet,with a closet on one side of the fireplace, to which warmair may be introduced from the back of the range; over
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