Improvements in or relating to Cottage Dwellings.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Oct., 1891-Accepted, 28th Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Cottage Dwellings.
1 GEORGE HEATON Assoc. M. Inst. C.E. of 14 Victoria Buildings, King Street,
Wigan in the County of Lancaster Architect do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object a plan of building cottages by which there can
be a pantry and storeroom arranged in a cottage with the ground plan an ordinary
parallelogram. Instead of the pantry or scullery, which usually is an adjunct to
the house, I place a pantry with small storeroom beneath it, and the lower parts of
the bedroom staircase coming out of the back kitchen, a door into the pantry,
preferably coming from the first winding of the stairs, and a door to the storeroom
below the pantry direct from the back kitchen. The stairs face the fire place, or
opposite wall of the back kitchen, turn round, and as they reach the wall of the
living room turn a second time, and rise to the bedroom floor. The bed-room floor
can be divided into three rooms, one of them facing the stairs, another opening out
immediately to the side of the stairs, and the third facing the middle flight of the
stairs. By this means no space is lost in lobbies, and no room has an opening into
another.
The ceiling of the stair case forms a succession of benches on which boxes and
other things can be placed. By this means I obtain four excellent places for beds
in the three rooms, one of them being over the pantry, two others next to the
partition wall between the two main rooms, and the fourth in the smaller room in
the inside corner. A ventilating flue proceeds from this point to the chimney of next
room.
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WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Cottage Dwellings.
I, GEORGE HEATON, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., of 14 Victoria Buildings, King
Street, Wigan, in the County of Lancaster, Architect, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object a plan of building cottages by which there can
be a pantry and storeroom arranged in a cottage with the ground plan an ordinary
parallelogram.
The back kitchen, living room, staircase bed rooms, landings and other accom-
modation in the house are so arranged that more advantageous results and better
sanitary conditions of the apartments are obtained than has heretofore been the case
in dwelling houses of equal size or area.
The invention is best described by aid of the accompanying drawings, in which,
Figure 1 is a plan of the ground floor.
Figure 2 a plan of the bedroom floor.
Figure 3 a sectional side elevation on the line X X, and
Figure 4 an alternative plan without storeroom under pantry.
Instead of the pantry or scullery which usually is an adjunct to the house, I
place a pantry A with a small storeroom B. beneath it, and the lower parts of the
bedroom staircase C coming out of the back kitchen. A door D gives access into
the pantry A, preferably coming from the first winding of the stairs C, and a

page_text: door E gives access to the storeroom B below the pantry A direct from the back
kitchen. The stairs C face the fire place F or opposite wall of the back kitchen,
turn round, and as they reach the wall of the living room turn a second time and
rise to the bedroom floor (Figure 2). The bedroom floor can be divided into three.
rooms, one of them facing the stairs, another opening out immediately to the side
of the stairs, and the third facing the stairs. By this means no space is lost in
lobbies, and no room has an opening into another. The ceiling of the staircase
forms a succession of benches G on which boxes and other things can be placed.
By this means I obtain four excellent sites H for beds in the three rooms, one of
them being over the pantry A, two others next to the partition wall between the
two main rooms, and the fourth in the smaller room in the inside corner. These
beds are so placed as to be free from air draughts.
I is the fire place in the living room. The spaces can be utilised for shelves or
cupboards. Jis a washing boiler, j is a table, and a sink. The pantry A, being
an internal one, does not abut against the back kitchen fire place or washing boiler
fire place or the fire place of the adjoining house, thus making a cooler and more
useful pantry than when the fire places abut against the pantry wall.
The living room and back kitchen are made into better proportioned rooms than
usually obtained in houses of this size. The entrance D to the pantry A is more
private by being placed at the turn of the staircase C. The storeroom B under the
pantry can be used as a coal and fuel store, or for washing tubs and other kitchen
utensils, so that the back kitchen can be kept clean and tidy.
Two of the three bedrooms are at the front of the house, thus improving its
front appearance by having two bedroom windows. Two of the bedrooms have
fire places K and L and the third bedroom adjoins the living room flue of the next
house, thus deriving the advantage of warmth from that flue. This bedroom is
provided with a ventilating tube or flue from the ceiling and leading into the
chimney stack.
My invention admits of the houses being built singly, dually or in terraces, and,
by having straight front and back walls, avoids all expensive construction of
projecting buildings so often used for pantries or back kitchens of cottage dwellings,
and the cost of construction and maintenance of buildings and roofs is reduced to
the lowest possible limit.
The area of land required for the houses, and for the back yard space is reduced
below that of ordinary cottage dwellings thus effecting a saving of cost in land, and
all the requirements of the model byelaws framed by the Local Government Board
for the erection of cottage dwelling houses are conformed to.
The plan is capable of being reversed so as to be built either with the fire places
on the right hand or left hand from the front door, and where preferred, the pantry
Hoor may be placed on same level as back kitchen floor and entered from the back
kitchen side of pantry as shown on the alternative plan, Figure 4.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The herein described plan of building cottages, by which there can be a
pantry and storeroom arranged in the cottage with the ground plan an ordinary
parallelogram, and whereby better sanitary conditions of the apartments are
obtained than has heretofore been the case in dwelling houses of equal size and
area.
2. The arrangement of a cottage substantially as described with staircase and
rooms opening thereon.
ted this 21st day of October 1891.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and London, Patent Agents.