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
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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
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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
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You should not treat ‘one-bedroom’ as shorthand for a particular size of flat. One-bedroom flats vary considerably in size throughout Blake Tower. For example, Flats 21 and 23 on floor 2 are officially one-bed flats, but at only 46.5 m² and 46.1 m² respectively, they are smaller in area than the studio flats. In the other direction, Flats LG12 and LG21 on the lower ground floors are almost twice as big at 84 m² and 87.9 m² respectively, but are still designated as one-bedroom flats in Redrow’s brochure.
One-bedroom flats from floor 8 upwards are almost always a uniform 48 m² in area. The exceptions are
– floor 11 where two flats are 49.7 m², and
– floors 14 and 15 where there are two large ones at 71.9 m².
One-bedroom flats from floor 3 to 7 – where there are two on each floor – also follow a common pattern. The southern one, nearest the rest of the Barbican Estate, is always 51.6 m². The northern one, nearest Fann Street, is always 53.8 m².
From floor 2 downwards, sizes of one-bedroom flats vary enormously. For example, there are two on the ground floor: one is 49.4 m² and the other is 70.01 m².
One-bedroom flats totally monopolise the north-eastern corner of Blake Tower (facing Fann Street but looking towards Great Arthur House, not Goswell Road). They are on every floor where there are flats (excluding the duplexes on floors 16 and 17).
The one-bedrooms’ hold on the north-western corner (facing Fann Street but looking towards Goswell Road) is slightly less strong. They give way to two-bedroom flats on floors 3 to 7, and to 3 bedroom flats from floor 14 upwards.