Littleborough Housing Scheme

Out of the thirteen firms of architects - four from  Rochdale and nine from Manchester - who submitted competitive plans for the Littleborough  District Council's new housing scheme, Messrs. Butterworth and Duncan of Baillie Street, Rochdale, have been selected to carry out the work. The site on which the houses are to be erected is a plot of some thirteen acres. The lay-out. suggested by the architects provides for 140 houses, of which more than half are to be semi‑detached and the remainder in blocks of four. There are to be three open plots for playgrounds or allotments, and the depth of each house plot will be sufficient to provide for an ample garden. The distance between the houses on either side of the avenues is to be 70 feet. Tim types shown in the competitive plans provide that all the semi‑detached houses and the end houses of each block of four shall be of the parlour type. i.e. with three downstairs rooms. The inside houses of the blocks will contain a living room and scullery downstairs. All the dwellings are to have three bedrooms on the first floor and will also contain bathroom, water closet, larder and coal place within the four walls of the building. They will be built, of brick, the upper storeys being generally faced with roughcast. The lay-out has been approved by the Housing Commissioner's Architect, and sent off to the Ministry of Health Department in London for final approval.

Reference           Building News 26 September 1919 Page 271