| Description | Depicting a floor plan for the ground and chambers and stamped by the Rotherham and Kimberworth Local Board of Health, to a scale of 10 to 30 feet, it features designs for the following rooms and spaces in the ground plan; dining room, drawing room, kitchen, store room, back kitchen, breakfast room, green house, workshop, wash closet, passages, cistern, knives, coals, porch and yard room, and the following rooms and spaces in the Chamber Plan; seven bedrooms - three with bay windows - a bathroom, a wash closet and two landings. A total of ten chimney breasts are present within both designs.
Three additional pencil drawn extension designs are present, two for the ground floor attached to the coals space, and one for the chamber floor adding an eight bedroom.
Wrapped around the plans was a blue document titled 'Borough of Rotherham: New Building Regulations & Co. Notices to Owners, Architects and Builders' which features 27 points regarding but not limited to, damp proof courses, thickness of external walls, all rooms to feature a fire place or other means of ventilation, privies were to be constructed so the soil and ashes to be well mixed together, cess-pools not allowed unless necessary, when plans should be deposited and who to.
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