cold water flat
Basic urban housing
A cold water flat is an apartment with running cold water but no hot water supply—tenants heat water on the stove for bathing and washing.
The term evokes urban poverty in early-to-mid 20th century America, when such apartments were common in tenement buildings: They started out in a cold water flat on the Lower East Side.
Multi-unit urban dwelling
- squalorDirty, degraded living conditions
- impoverishedExtremely lacking in money
- hardshipSuffering from difficult circumstances
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
slum · walk-up · rooming house · flophouse · unheated · railroad apartment · boarding house · fleabag
Rigorously simple, unadorned
- bareLacking any covering
- unadornedLacking decoration or ornament
- no-frillsWithout extras or embellishments
- basicFundamental in nature
stark · minimal · functional · austere · cramped · drafty · peeling paint · radiator
Rented unit in building
- landlordProperty owner renting out
- tenantOne who rents property
- rentPayment for temporary use
- leaseTemporary use contract
walkup · airshaft · fire escape · stoop · brownstone · kitchenette · efficiency · subdivided
tenement
Multi-unit urban dwelling
- squalorDirty, degraded living conditions
- impoverishedExtremely lacking in money
- hardshipSuffering from difficult circumstances
deprivation · slum · walk-up · rooming house · flophouse · unheated · railroad apartment · boarding house · fleabag · fire escape
spartan
Rigorously simple, unadorned
- bareLacking any covering
- unadornedLacking decoration or ornament
- no-frillsWithout extras or embellishments
basic · stark · minimal · functional · austere · cramped · drafty · peeling paint · radiator · hot plate
apartment
Rented unit in building
lease · walkup · airshaft · fire escape · stoop · brownstone · kitchenette · efficiency · subdivided · overcrowded
cold water flatluxury apartment
Upscale residential rental unit
penthouse · deluxe suite · central heating · smart home · serviced apartment
cold water flatpenthouse suite
Topmost luxury lodging
brownstone · doorman building · mansion · estate · villa
cold, colder, coldest, coldly, coldness, water, waters, watery, watered