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THE SOCIETY FOR IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF THE LABOURING CLASSES


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Reference IV/163
Covering dates c1844-1851
Held by Lambeth Archives Department
Extent 19 plans
Source of acquisition Depositor: The Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes, 45 Doughty Street, London WC1
Date: not known, reaccessioned 1989.
Creators Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes


Contents:
Building Plans
The Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes was established in 1844 with the Prince Consort as its President; Henry Roberts, its Honorary Architect, was a pioneer in the improvement of working-class housing.
One of the buildings designed by Henry Roberts was built for the Great Exhibition of 1851 and later transferred to Kennington Common where it still stands; for further information on this building see Survey of London Vol XXVI Part 2.
This is a collection of printed plans produced for the Society by Henry Roberts and N.E. Stevens; they include one to three bed room buildings, detached, semi-detached and terraced cottages. The plans are undated; the only scheme known to have been built was -/16 in 1851.
See also illustrated volume in Search Room at 0/184


Expand   Plans for Labourers Cottages Adapted to Agricultural Districts No. 1-7.  IV/163/1  1844-1851
Expand   Plans for Labourers Cottages Adapted to Agricultural Districts No. 1-7.  IV/163/2  1844-1851
Expand   Plans for Labourers Cottages Adapted to Agricultural Districts No. 1-7.  IV/163/3  1844-1851
Expand   Plans for Labourers Cottages Adapted to Agricultural Districts No. 1-7.  IV/163/4  1844-1851
Expand   Plans for Labourers Cottages Adapted to Agricultural Districts No. 1-7.  IV/163/5  1844-1851
Expand   Plans for Labourers Cottages Adapted to Agricultural Districts No. 1-7.  IV/163/6  1844-1851
Expand   Plans for Labourers Cottages Adapted to Agricultural Districts No. 1-7.  IV/163/7  1844-1851
Expand   Plan for double cottages with distinct tenements for four families (No. 8).  IV/163/8  1844-1851
Expand   Plan of two single cottages suitable for gate lodges (no. 9).  IV/163/9  1844-1851
Expand   Reduced copy of plans for double cottage with one, two & three bed rooms  IV/163/10  1844-1851
Expand   Plans for Windsor Royal Society"s model houses for four families (no. 3).  IV/163/11  c1844-1851
Expand   Plans for Windsor Royal Society"s model houses for eight families (No. 1 & 2).  IV/163/12  c1844-1851
Expand   Plans for lodging houses for unmarried workmen or labourers.  IV/163/13  c1844-1851
Expand   Plans for houses for families adapted to towns. Architect Henry Roberts  IV/163/14  c1844-1851
Expand   Details of Construction in hollow brickwork illustrative of the model houses for families erected in Hyde Park at the Industrial Exhibition of 1851 by HRH Prince Albert K.G.  IV/163/15  c1844-1851
Expand   Plans for model houses for four families erected in Hyde Park at the Industrial Exhibition of 1851 by HRH Prince Albert K.G.  IV/163/16  c1844-1851
Expand   Elevations of two pair of three story houses on the plan of the Prince's Model Houses  IV/163/17  c1844-1851
Expand   Stevens' Cottage plans (No. 1) A Pair of cottages suitable for labourers.  IV/163/18  c1844-1851
Expand   Steven's Cottage Plans (No. 2) for a pair of cottages suitable for mechanics.  IV/163/19  c1844-1851


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