Our 64th Competition.

Progress, Volume XIII, Issue 9, 1 May 1918, Page 195

Our 64th Competition.

We offer a prize of £1 Is. for the design adjudged to be the best for A Six-Roomed House with ground and first floor to be built on a. flat suburban section with 150 feet frontage to a road running along its southern side. The materials to be used for outside walls to be any of the following:Entirely brick; Brick covered with plaster or finished in any suitable manner; Brick plastered (rough or smooth) with quoins or facings of brick; Concrete plastered or finished in any other suitable manner; Concrete and brick combined. Hanging tiles or slates may be used in the gables or elsewhere. Partitions to be shown (i inches thick. Roof to be covered with tiles or slates. The rooms, etc., to be approximately of the areas given below. Heights of ground floor to be 10 feet for main rooms, for first floor they are not to be less than 9 feet over half their area. Drainage into sewers (public), rain water into pits. The design for front fence, or wall, with gates (single and double) to be shown. Verandah on North side only. Bay windows or portico at the option of the designer. Sizes:—Hall not less than 7 feet wide. Staircase not less than 3 feet wide. Drawing room about 300 square feet exclusive of window recesses. Dining room about 144 square feet. Kitchen 120 square feet. Scullery about 100 square feet. Bed room No. 1 same size as drawing room. Other two bed rooms not less than 170 square feet each. There must also be a safe, store room, bath room, W.C. (separate from the bath room), linen closet, etc. The laundry and outbuilding need not be included. Drawings to be to ginch scale, finished in ink. Mr. F. de J. Clere, P.E.1.8.A., of Wellington, has kindly set this subject. Designs must be sent in finished as above, under a non-de-plume addressed to “Progress,” S Parish Street, Wellington, and marked clearly “Sixty-fourth Competition” on outside with a covering letter giving competitor’s name* and address of employer. Designs to be sent in by July 21st.