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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 217 V (^^ "i ■ — — — > -'"i ./ ^ /M'T'-Z^A' cornice, with flowers or bosses, fifteen inches apart, j ; rioor boards out of two cut battens, k ; skirting board, with hollow worked on the edge and a groove, / ; narrow ground, splayed for plaster, m ; small fillet nailed on the floor, for fastening the skirting, n ; wooden brick, four inches by two inches and a half, o ; plaster, p ; oak sill, q ; capping, or window board, r ; and window back, s. Fig. 370 is a section show- ing the construction of the embattle- mcnts, in which we have the wall of the ground floor a brick and a half thick, t ; the wall of the bed-room floor one brick thick, u ; the coping of the embattlements formed of Aus- tin's artificial stone, v v ; and the moulded string under the embattle- ments, w. Fig. 371 is a section, showing the gutter and the roof, in which the wall-plate is represented at a ; the ceiling joist, four inches by one inch and a half, is nailed to the side of the rafter at b ; the rafter, c, four inches by two inches, is notched on to the wall-plate ; the battens for the slates, three inches by three quarters of an inch, are shown at d ; three quarters of an inch feather-edged eaves- board at e ; a cast-iron gutter at f, moulded to form a cor- nice, and fastened by copper nails to the ends of the rafters ; Fig. 372 is an elevation of the Fig. 373 is an and slates at g. south-east end of this building elevation, to a scale of three eighths of an inch to a foot, of the chimney tops, formed of Austin's artificial stone. 441. Specification and Estimate. As the build- ing is small and simple, these are combined in what is technically called one particular. The prices are calculated at the prime cost of materials and labour, in London, in the year 1832. 442. Digger and Bricklayer's Work. ,£' s. </. Twenty cubic yards, digging, wheeling, or filling in to the founda- tions, and over the whole surface, six inches deep 1 : 0:0 Seven rods and three quarters reduced stock brickwork, at ^12 per rod 93: 0: J The walls are to have two courses of one brick in thickness, and the plinth is to be lialf a brick thicker than the walls al)ove, as shown in the ground plan, fig. 367. There are to be oiic-brick footings. -*vru'ij-^.