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 124 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. neled, square on both sides ; and to be hung and fitted as the front entrance door, with jambs, lining, &c., to correspond : both of the entrance doors to have oak- framed door cases and sills, five inches by three inches and a half. — Basement. The basement story to have one-inch tiiick deal proper-ledged doors (a ledged door is called proper, when it is wrought, ploughed (grooved), tongued (slips which go into the grooves, so as to make perfect joints), and bedded), and good oak proper door-cases, five inches by three inches and a half, (a door-case is called proper, when it is wrought, framed, rebated, and beaded), hung with eighteen-inch cross garnet linings, with stock locks (see fig. 69;, and Norfolk latches (see fig. 67). The basement story to have solid oak proper two-light window frames, four inches by two inches and a half, with one-inch iron stanchion bars (properly, support- ing bars, but here placed for protection), four inches apart, wrought-iron casements, and strong hinges, latches, stay irons (fig. 236), saddle-bars (cross-bars to which the leadwork of the j 236 -1- 235 V 1 u a t ! 1 / / //'
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^SSS^ is fixed), &c., complete. The other windows to have deal-cased frames, oak sunk sills, one inch and a half astragal and hollow sashes, double hung with iron weights, and best white lines, brass pulleys, and patent spring sash-fastenings. The sash windows, except the sitting-rooms, to have one-inch wrought hinges, and one inch and a quarter wrought and rounded window-boards. All the windows, except those of the basement, to have grounds and mouldings to match the doors. The kitchen, wash-house, store-room, and pantry to have one-inch thick square framed folding inside shutters, with rule joints, proper hinges, and iron bar fastenings. The sitting-rooms to have one inch and a quarter pro- per boxings (the frames which receive the architraves and the outer edges of the shutters are called proper boxings, when they are wrought, framed, rebated, splayed, and beaded), and architraves to matcli the doors ; one inch and a quarter ovolo flat baclcs and splayed elbows (in fig. 237, a a are the elbows ; 6 is the cap- ping, or, as it is called when of some width, the window-board), and soffits (the part of the architrave which projects over the columns, but the term is used generally for the under side of any horizontal pro- jection), with proper capping (the coping or covering to the elbows and backs of the windows ; viz., to a a, as shown at _^ b b b,in fig. 237), one-inch bead and butt back linings ; one inch and a quarter ovolo flat shutters, with one inch bead and butt back flaps (framed in panels, with a bead struck on the panel sides only), with proper hinges, strong wrought-iron spring shutter bars, and brass spring fastenings. (Fig. 238 is a section of part of a bead, butt, and square back door ; in which, c is the style, d the panel, e the bead on the front side of the panel, and / the square back of the panel. Fig. 239 is a section of part of