Jill Allibone, Salvin's biographer, records that he did little more than add sculleries and bathrooms. The hall remains in the possession of the Pratt family.
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Your deeds got into extemporised strong-rooms made of kitchens and sculleries, and fretted all the fat out of their parchments into the banking-house air.
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Beyond this area were the galleys, sculleries, and pantries that served all passenger classes. Moving further aft, the second-class passenger dining room, which could accommodate 120 diners, was next. It, too, spanned the width of the ship and featured mahogany furniture, but was paneled with tapestry upon a cream-colored ground. Beyond the dining area were cabins for 76 second-class passengers.
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Upstairs there was another large saloon with two billiard tables, sitting rooms, bathroom and 21 bedrooms. The kitchens, sculleries and pantries were located at the rear of the building with the interior yard containing stables and coach houses. The entire street frontage of the building was surrounded by wide verandahs. The building was completed at a cost of £8,000 by contractor Harry L. Roe under the instructions of the architects Cavanagh and Cavanagh.
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In 1905, G. J. Earle, the Artizans Company's Surveyor, drew up plans for the remainder of the site based on the experiences learned from the completed northern half of the estate. Buildings were designed to a modified version of Plumbe's third-class house plan in the Arts and Crafts style, with white-rendered brickwork, regular low gables, and curved ground floor windows. The toilets were now designed with connecting doors to the sculleries, and in some cases the staircases repositioned to the front of the house. They were no longer described or marketed as "third-class" houses.
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Water was usually only provided in this scullery, with a Belfast sink and often a separate stove heating a wash copper for laundry, either in the scullery or a separate outhouse. With the adoption of smaller gas cookers rather than coal ranges in the mid-20th century, many of these sculleries were converted as kitchens, so allowing the previous kitchen to become a larger living room. The type is well-regarded today and is often rented or a first purchase by young professionals and childless couples, seeking an affordable home near a city centre. Although 100–150 years old, their construction standards were generally good and they are considered solid and reliable buildings.
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They make their clothes and keep them in > repair; they work in the kitchens, sculleries, wash-houses, and laundries; > and, in a word, we aim at this, that, if any of them do not turn out well, > temporally or spiritually, and do not become useful members of society, it > shall not at least be our fault. The boys are, generally, apprenticed when > they are between 14 and 15 years old; but in each case we consider the > welfare of the individual Orphan, without having any fixed rule respecting > these matters. The boys have a free choice of the trade or business they > like to learn; but, having once chosen, and having been apprenticed, we do > not allow them to alter. The boys, as well as the girls, have an outfit > provided for them, and any other expenses, that may be connected with their > apprenticeship, are also met by the funds of the Orphan Establishment.
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The working-class home had transitioned from the rural cottage, to the urban back- to-back terraces with external rows of privies, to the through terraced houses of the 1880 with their sculleries and individual external WC. It was the Tudor Walters Report of 1918 that recommended that semi-skilled workers should be housed in suburban cottages with kitchens and internal WC. As recommended floor standards waxed and waned in the building standards and codes, the bathroom with a water closet and later the low-level suite, became more prominent in the home. Before the introduction of indoor toilets, it was common to use the chamber pot under one's bed at night and then to dispose of its contents in the morning. During the Victorian era, British housemaids collected all of the household's chamber pots and carried them to a room known as the housemaids' cupboard. This room contained a "slop sink", made of wood with a lead lining to prevent chipping china chamber pots, for washing the "bedroom ware" or "chamber utensils".
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