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Floor plans for a house on a Victorian housing estate

The following are room plans for a typical Victorian or Edwardian terraced house as it was in the early 20th century. They were drawn to scale by John Cole, based on his recollections of a similar house on the Huxley Estate in the 1940s which belonged to a rather elderly resident who had probably kept things much as they were over the years, and a 21st century estate agent's measurements of a house in Lopen Road.

Plan of the ground floor

Rooms or areas with their own pages are the front garden, the parlour, the kitchen, the coal hole, the scullery, the copper, the yard, the lavatory and the back garden.

Downstairs floor plan for Victorian terraced house, showing all rooms and spaces, fully labelled

Floor plan of downstairs rooms of a terraced house on a Victorian housing estate as it was in the early 1900s.
In the slightly later houses, the entrance to the coal hole is from the kitchen.

Plan of the first floor

The front bedroom and the bath cupboard have their own pages.

Upstairs floor plan for Victorian terraced house, showing all rooms and spaces, fully labelled

Floor plan of upstairs rooms of a terraced house on a Victorian housing estate as it was in the early 1900s.

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