What this house does not do
The house is not step-free
A 1912 house with a stoop and three floors. One apartment is nearly level; the other two are not.
Accessibility
This is a house of 1912 with a stoop, three floors and no lift. What follows is what the building actually does, in enough detail to decide from, rather than a word like "limited" that leaves the deciding to you on the day you arrive.
What the building does
- Level throughout, once you are inside the garden apartment
- Three steps DOWN from the pavement to the garden door, and no ramp — the pavement is four feet from the wall. Past that door there is no step at all: it is the shortest route into the building and the only apartment with no internal stair.
- Level access from the garden apartment to the garden
- A single threshold of about an inch at the terrace door.
- Doorways
- The garden apartment's internal doors are thirty-two inches clear. The bathroom door is twenty-nine, which is the narrowest door in that apartment.
- Bathroom
- The garden bathroom has a bath with a shower over it. A grab rail can be fitted to the bath wall on request with a fortnight's notice.
- Written arrival
- Everything about arriving is in writing and in photographs a week before, so nothing depends on finding a person.
- Assistance dogs
- Welcome in every apartment. Tell us and the apartment is prepared for it.
What it does not
- There is no lift
- The parlour floor is five steps up the stoop. The loft is those five plus two internal flights, the second of which is steep and turns.
- The garden apartment has three steps down
- There is no ramp and the stoop cannot take one — the pavement is four feet from the wall.
- No wet room and no roll-in shower
- The parlour has a walk-in shower with a two-inch upstand. The loft shower has a tray.
- The loft mezzanine is a ladder-stair
- It is not a bed anybody should reach who is not confident on a ladder.
- The garden is reached by an external stair from the parlour floor
- Eight steps with a handrail on one side.
- No hearing loop and no visual fire alert as standard
- A portable vibrating smoke alarm can be fitted in any apartment with a fortnight's notice. Ask, and it is done before you arrive.
Ask us the question. If the question you have is not answered above, telephone and ask it. A measurement nobody has taken is a measurement we will go and take, and a straight answer is better for everybody than a booking that has to be undone at the door.
Why this page will not call the house "accessible"
Neither "accessible" nor "step-free" is true of this building, and writing either one and hoping it reads as a helpful shorthand would only move the discovery to the day a guest arrives with luggage and finds five steps and no lift. What this page gives instead is what it opened with: every measurement this house has actually taken, in both directions, at the same size.
If the question you have is not answered above, telephone and ask it. A measurement nobody has taken is a measurement we will go and take, and a straight answer is better for everybody than a booking that has to be undone at the door.
Ask the specific question
A measurement nobody has taken yet is one we will go and take. Telephone before you book rather than after.