Explanation of flat types for Original Barbican
1A 1B 1C 2A 2B 2C 3A 3B 3C 4A 4B 4C 5A 6B 7C 8A 8B 8C 9A 9B 9C 10 12 13 14 16 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 49 50 51 52 53 54 56 57 58 60 61 63/64 67/68 70 71 72 73 74 76 78 79 80 81 84 85 86 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 118 119 120 121 F1A F1D F1E F2A F2B F2C F3C M2A M2B M2C M3A M3B M3C M3D M3E M4A P1D P2A P2B
Studios | 1 bed | 2 beds | 3+ beds | Towers | Maisonettes | Penthouses | Garden
Explanation of flat types for Frobisher Crescent
7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9 7.10 7.11 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 8.9 8.10 8.11 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 9.8 9.9 9.10
Studios | 1 bed | 2 beds | 3+ beds | Maisonettes | Penthouses
Explanation of flat types for Blake Tower
Flat Types 42 45 46 47 48 49 50 52 54 60 61 65 66 67 70 71 72 76 77 78 82 84 88 93 100 102 108 137 Pen1 Pen 2
Flats LG21 LG22 LG11 LG12 LG13 1 2 3 11 12 13 14 21 22 23 24 25 31 32 33 34 35 41 42 43 44 45 51 52 53 54 55 61 62 63 64 65 71 72 73 74 75 81 82 83 84 91 92 93 94 101 102 103 104 111 112 113 114 121 122 123 124 131 132 133 134 141 142 143 151 152 153 161 162
Floors LG2 LG1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16-17
Studios | One-bed flats | Two-bed flats | Three-bed flats | Bathrooms | Kitchens | Winter Gardens | Balconies
Type 10 is the layout of all eight of the houses in Lambert Jones Mews. This is a terrace of two-storey mews houses with doors and garages onto a cobbled mews below Lauderdale Place.
Lambert Jones Mews is genuinely a mews – while Brandon Mews is not – because it has a garage on the ground floor. An original mews house had the horses and carriage on the ground floor and the grooms lived above. The stabling was then converted into an integral garage in the modern mews house. So a proper mews house has a garage on the ground floor.
As a matter of historical interest, ‘mews’ relates to birds not horses. Henry VIII kept falcons. When they were moulting or ‘mewing’ each year they were kept in ‘mews’ in the Strand. When he later moved his falcons out and his horses in, the ‘mews’ name stuck.
House layout
They have three bedrooms, a living room, a dining area, and a general purpose room (6 rooms), plus an integral garage, and roof gardens.
The houses are entered from the roadway at the front. There is an integral garage which takes up some of the ground floor. Beyond the garage is a hall with a WC off it on one side. The hall leads to a third bedroom at the back overlooking Thomas More Garden. (Several houses have a door here for direct access to the garden.) The other side of the ground floor of the house is one large living area overlooking the gardens, with a study at the back next to the stairs.
Upstairs, the landing leads to a balcony overlooking the cobbled street. There is one door off to the kitchen which is open to the dining area at the other end. There is another door off the landing to the second bedroom. The second bedroom has another door into a corridor leading to a separate WC and to a bathroom. The corridor finally reaches the first bedroom overlooking the garden. The corridor also opens into the dining area. The dining area is a large gallery overlooking the garden end of the living room. The glory of these houses is the double height windows with a view of the gardens outside.
Finally, there is access to a seating area on the tiled roofs of the houses.
Please note. These plans are illustrations and approximations only. They illustrate types of flats as built. They don’t show the actual demise, size, layout or dimensions of any particular flat. Individual flats may differ, or have been altered.
Original Barbican Brochure Plan
My Floor Plan
My 3D Plan
