Cottages, 28-30 Whiteside Way, Cleveleys Park, Cleveleys

Cleveleys is a new residential district four miles north of Blackpool on the Lancashire coast, with which place and Fleetwood it is connected by tramway. The estate has been rapidly developed by the owners, and to assist this development a cottage exhibition with substantial prizes was instituted for 1906. This exhibition was framed on lines somewhat superior to those of the Letchworth Exhibition, the object being to show what could] be done under by-laws and not, as at the Garden City, what could be built for a certain sum without adherence to any by-laws. No stipulated sum was stated; but certain accommodation had to be provided.

Q M Bluhm was awarded First Prize for a pair of cottages with not less than three bedrooms: - The cost of this pair of cottages is given as £430 (4 2/5d. per cubic foot). If duplicated, £500 (including builder's profit and architect's fees, but exclusive of site, fencing and sewers). There is a cupboard for cloaks, etc, in the porch; the coal-house is covered over; a wardrobe is provided in the first bedroom, and a cupboard in the living room: hot and cold water are laid on to bath, lavatory and sink. The foundation is of cement concrete, eight inches thick under main walls and four inches thick over whole site. External walls are of brick eleven inches thick, with a two-inch cavity, rough-cast and lime-washed; roofs of Borrowdale thick green slates, from the fireproof slab partitions; hearths, &c, formed with hand-made Dutch tiles.

Reference : J H Elder-Duncan (1912) Country Cottages. Page 60-61 and 36 –illustration