Perrett's Court is a purpose built apartment block comprising 30 apartments across four floors. There are eight apartments on the ground, 1st and 2nd floors, and six on the top floor. Beneath the ground floor, there is a secure garage providing one designated parking space for each apartment, except the six top floor penthouse apartments, which have two designated parking spaces each. There are also two shared spaces for occasional use by guests of residents.

The block is sub-divided into four separate stairways. Apartment numbering follows the usual post office convention of starting from the city centre and working outwards; so, apartment 1 is in stairway nearest the city end of Cumberland Road, right through to apartment 30 which is at the western end of the building.

28 of the apartments have two bedrooms and two of the top floor apartments have three bedrooms and two bathrooms (one being en-suite). Ground, 1st and 2nd floor apartments have one parking space each and the top floor apartments have two each.

Ground floor apartments have a large patio. The 1st and 2nd floor apartments have a balcony. On the top floor, 4 of the apartments have both a balcony and a small patio for outside areas whist the 2 three bedroom apartments have no outside space - though, in compensation, their internal square footage is around 60% greater than any of the two bedroom layouts..

Internal layouts

See the picture on the right showing the internal layout of each apartment - at the time the block was first built.

Today, the layouts are mostly the same though some owners, particularly those owning ground, 1st and 2nd floor Type 2 apartments, have chosen to reorganise the kitchen layout by replacing the elongated worktop/breakfast bar with shorter, equal length worktops that don't encroach on the adjacent dining area - the same way the Type 1 kitchens were originally built.

(For security reasons, we have taken apartment numbers off this schematic.)

Media connectivity

There is a communal aerial with outlets in each apartment for radio and TV reception. Additionally, and done at a time when there was a choice of at least three cable companies, the central service cupboards were pre-wired for cable TV services, with jump off points for each apartment. Connection to a "jump off point" and subsequent use of (what is now a 100% monopoly) Virgin Media service is entirely at the owners liability and cost. There are no plans to erect a communal satellite dish, and owners are prohibited from erecting their own.

We may, at some point in the future, look into the possibility of a shared internet service, but there are no immediate plans at the time of writing (Sept 2012).

Recycling and waste

We have a walled off bin store and a batch of 6 recycling bins, forming, if we want to be grand, a "recycling centre"!