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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 125 238 '[r- 239 c J^ (In fig. 240, c is a torus ^ 240 a bead flush door, in wliidi the bead, g, is struck upon the styles, and returned on the rails, so as to surround the panel.) — Skirting. Chamber floor to have three quarters of an inch square skirting througliout, four inches and a half high. The sitting-rooms and entrance passage to have one-inch torus skirting, eight inches high ; all the skirting to have narrow beveled grounds. moulding on the skirting, (/, which is nailed to the beveled ground, e ,- f is the wall ; g, the plaster ; and /;, the floor of the room. The grounds are beveled, in order that they may retain the plastering better than by a horizontal joint.) Principal stair- case to have one-inch yellow deal steps, risers, and carriage (pieces which bear the brackets till the steps arefixedj, with moulded nosings to the steps to be housed (let in) into the close stringing, which is to be one and a quarter inch thick, sunk, and moulded with a moulded planceer (a moulded capping to the sti-inging into which the balusters are fixed) with one inch and a quarter raking (following a slope) torus wall string- housed to the steps and risers. To put deal turned newels (posts firmly framed to which the handrail is fixed) and moulded handrail, and ' three quarters of an inch square deal bar balusters, and one inch and a quarter square framed spandril to enclose the cellar stairs. (In fig. 241, i is the spandril of the stairs ; k; the string ; /, the planceer ; ?», the balusters ; n, the newel ; and o, the handrail. Fig. 242 represents the string board, in which the dotted lines show the housings.) The cellar stairs to have one-inch deal risers, one inch and a quarter oak treads with rounded nosings and proper carriage, a deal handrail, newel (turning) post, and one and a quarter inch string boards with steps housed in. The pump to have one inch and a half oak cheeks (sides) and silis, cased with one-inch deal, with proper cap, &c. ; which is to be fixed in the wash-house. The angles of the chimney breasts to have proper staff beads (upright corner beads put at the external angles of chimney jambs, and in similar situations. In fig. 243, p is the section of the staff bead ; q q, the plaster ; r r, what are called the quirks in the plastering; and s, the wall.) Two hundred feet (lineal) of one-inch thick wrought and rounded shelf board, twelve inches broad, to be prepared and fixed with brackets and iron hold-fasts in the pantrj-, store-room, and closets, or elsewhere, as may be directed by the employer. Yellow deal balconies to be put up to one of the front and two of the side windows, as shown by the drawings ; with moulded handrail, and turned balusters ; the floor wrought on both sides, moulded on the edge, and two inches and a quarter thick ; having four cut brackets three inches thick to support each : the whole to be firmly and securely fixed. Flower-stands of good yellow deal to be put up to the two front windows as shown by the drawings, and finished according to figs. 8 and 9, in plate of details, page 118. An oak moulded sill and a deal moulded handrail to be put round the back part of the building ; these are to be framed into the posts, and the