Eastoft Hale Road Hale

The site of this bungalow is situated on the Hale-road, and rises sharply from the road, falling again towards the south-west end. It was therefore impossible to arrange a formal court, having the gates on the main axis line for the entrance; a further difficulty in the site was its narrow width and the necessity of having to set back from the site boundaries. In consequence only the secondary rooms could be placed at the side, the entrance and garden fronts being reserved for the principal rooms. In planning the interior, care was taken to keep the bedrooms, bathroom etc., kitchen and offices quite apart from the hall and living rooms.The bungalow is built of 2 inch common bricks and roofed with Delabole slates, the window frames being painted white. For the inside the finish is of the simplest description, the walls being plastered and distempered, and the floors boarded and wax polished. In the kitchen the floor is tiled with red tiles, and the walls have a dado of white Dutch tiles 4 feet 6 inches high; this treatment has also been adopted for the bathroom and W.C. except that a composition floor has been used instead of tiles.

The contractors for the work were Messrs L Brown & Sons of Wilmslow, Cheshire, and the sub-contractors were Messrs Setchell & Co., Deansgate, Manchester- slating;, Messrs Williams Gamon & Co., Kaleyards, Chester, - steel casements and lead glazing; Shanks & Co., Deansgate, Manchester - sanitary fillings; W & R Leggott, Bradford, - ironmongery; Williams & Co Carr-street, Manchester, - wall tiling; E Wood Ltd., Station-buildings, Altrincham, electric lighting; E Hart & Son, Bank-street, Salford, - wrot ironmongery.  The contractors for the garden were Messrs Caldwell & Sons, The Nurseries, Knutsford. Messrs Frank P Oakley and Gerald Sanville AARIBA are the architects.