| Name:
Airey |
Type:
PRC |
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Construction
Post and panel construction. Storey height pre-cast concrete posts at 18"
centres Incorporating steel tube reinforcement. External cladding 3' x 9" pre-cast concrete
shiplap panels secured to posts by copper wire fixings, panel rendered in some cases. |
Common
Identifying Features
'Shiplap' cladding panels, tile hung gable ends |
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| Name:
Arrowhead |
Type:
Steel Frame |
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Construction
Lightweight steel frame constructed of channel members supported by side
plates. |
Common
Identifying Features
None known. |
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| Name:
Boot |
Type:
PRC |
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Construction
External walls trained in concrete piers or columns, fixed in pairs to create a
cavity wall. Inner and outer leaves formed in clinker blocks or concrete panels, plastered
internally and rough cast rendered externally. Roots pitched and often hipped with
conventional tile coverings. |
Common
Identifying Features
Front ground floor bay to some houses. Pattern of cracking
to external rendering may reveal structure beneath. |
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| Name:
British Iron and Steel Federation Housing (BISF) |
Type:
Steel Frame |
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Construction
Structural steel frame in light sections. |
Common
Identifying Features
Ribbed metal sheeting to first floor external, metal surrounded
window projecting from wall face, corrugated asbestos cement roof covering |
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| Name:
Cornish Unit |
Type:
PRC |
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Construction
Post and panel construction. Exposed concrete columns at 36" to 40"
centres, carrying concrete slabs to form the leaves of cavity walls. Slab depths vary from
9" to 24" depending on type. Traditionally constructed Mansard roofs (Type I Cornish Units),
although some were built with conventional hipped roofs and tile hung upper elevations.
Type 2 units may have post and panel construction to upper elevations beneath a hipped
roof. |
Common
Identifying Features
Exposed post and panel construction, Mansard roofs. |
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| Name:
Dorlonco |
Type:
Steel Frame |
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Construction
Steel frame with metal lathing and rendering. |
Common
Identifying Features
Steel roof truss. |
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| Name:
Dorran |
Type:
PRC |
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Construction
Storey height narrow pre-cast concrete panels rising from a kerb unit At
ground level and a concrete ring beam at first floor level. Panels bolted together horizontally
and backed by a Timber frame internally. Scaled externally by mortar pointing or Bitumastic
Tape beneath a textured finish. Roofs are twin pitched and tiled often with vertical boarding or tile hanging to gable ends. |
Common
Identifying Features
Outward slope to first floor ring beam, vertical boarding to
gable end. |
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| Name:
Dyke |
Type:
PRC |
No image available |
Construction
Storey height concrete panels and columns secured by steel angle brackets.
Concrete beams run from front to rear at first floor and eaves height. Cavity built walls with
concrete panels forming the outer leaf and concrete slabs forming the inner leaf. Panels
have an exposed aggregate finish but may be tendered throughout or to one storey only.
Flipped and tiled roof. |
Common
Identifying Features
Panels set between columns at ground floor level and
overlapping columns at first floor level creating an oversailing first floor. |
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| Name:
Gregory |
Type:
PRC |
No image available |
Construction
Pre-cast concrete storey height columns, kerb units and ring beams
concealed within an external cladding of concrete panels with staggered vertical joints. The
Mansard first floor and roof is tiled and of traditional construction, carried oil concrete
cantilever units from the ring beam. |
Common
Identifying Features
Mansard first floor and roof, staggered vertical joints to
panels give appearance of blockwork. |
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| Name:
Hawthorne Leslie |
Type:
Steel Frame |
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Construction
Steel stanchions with timber and steel beams. |
Common
Identifying Features
Semi compressed asbestos based hoarding as external finish. |
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