block of flats

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block of flats (plural blocks of flats)

  1. A residential building consisting of apartments.
    • 1947 May and June, “Richmond-Ludgate Hill Train, London & South Western Railway, at Addison Road Station About 75 Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page unnumbered (frontispiece):
      The train service on this circuitous route to the City was withdrawn during the 1914-1918 war, and never restored. The track between Addison Road and Ravenscourt Park was removed, and the site is now occupied by blocks of flats.
    • 2024 January 24, Stefanie Foster, “Metro-land's legacy for today's railway”, in RAIL, number 1001, pages 58-59:
      The crowning glory of the property developments was then built in 1927-29 as a luxury block of flats above Baker Street [] . Chiltern Court became the home of authors H G Wells and Arnold Bennett.

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