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422: 165: 161:, where there are single floor dwellings at ground level, and similar dwellings on the floor above. All have doors directly to the outside of the building, rather than into a 'close', or common staircase, although some do retain a shared entrance. The name 'cottage flats' is confusing as before the mid-1920s cottage housing referred to a single house, normally semi-detached, which contained living accommodation downstairs and bedrooms above. These were phased out by most urban local authorities as wasteful of space and economy after central government subsidies were reduced in the 1924 Housing Act. 289: 135: 365: 38: 219:
cottage flat-type dwellings which are a similar idea, but of a very distinctly different architecture, being always found in terraces, never as semi-detached type cottages. They normally consist of a first floor flat with a two storey upper flat (known as a double upper), in early developments,
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accessed from an external stair. Both flats have their own garden either side of the building. The popularity of this arrangement has led to new developments echoing the form.
273:, Canada in the late 1850s where, usually in terrace form, they became the dominant housing type of the remainder of the 19th century. In Montreal, this housing is known as 184:' programme, but it has proved a popular housing model and examples are still being built today. Cottage flats are the predominant form of housing in many parts of 463: 487: 421: 406: 102: 74: 121: 81: 456: 59: 88: 55: 17: 482: 497: 399: 324: 70: 449: 231: 164: 492: 255: 48: 392: 216: 251: 181: 95: 8: 227: 437: 380: 274: 339: 302: 433: 376: 325:"Architecture et forme urbaine, l'exemple du triplex à Montréal de 1870 à 1914" 294: 476: 235: 223: 212: 177: 173: 429: 134: 266:
are cottage flats, typically in the middle of ordinary terraced housing.
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houses), although such buildings are sometimes in the form of longer
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The majority consist of four dwellings per block (which appear like
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The Scottish cottage flat and Tyneside flat models were brought to
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they are found in Lochend, Saughton, Stenhouse and Prestonfield.
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Typical Glasgow '4 in a block' dwellings in Carntyne
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