it was composed of eight-a-house four-bedroom-one-toilet back-door-costs-extra terrace refurbished family homes with the front room usually divided into two and a half bedrooms and the upstairs divided into an infinitely large number of tiny boxes each supposed to contain upwards of one nave and stupid student whod pay anything for any kind of recklessly underfurbished house as long as it was near the university and she knew some other people there .