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 218 COTTAGE FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. £ a. d. eighteen inches high, to the partitions forming the sides of the stairs and lobby ; and one- brick sleeper walls, for the joists under the parlour. ( A sleeper is a piece of scantling, laid on the top of a low wall, under the flooring, on which the joists are to rest. ) Thirty yards of brick nogging of stocks laid flat to the partitions on the ground floor, at Ss. a yard 4:10:0 Five yards of brick paving of stocks, laid flat in sand, to the closet for coals, under the stairs, at 2s. 3rf. per yard 0:11:3 Forty-five feet superficial of cut- tings to the rakes of the gables at 3rf. per foot : 11 : 3 Ten feet superficial of two courses of plain tiles, bedded in cement, and rendered on the top, to the flat roofs of the towers O : 7:6 Two hundred and two feet lineal of cuttings to the splays of the windows and doors, at Id. a foot (c, in fig. 369) 1:13:8 Cutting four small Gothic heads, and one large ditto ; and four loophole crosses to the towers : 10 : One hundred and sixteen feet lineal of brick on edge, cut and set in cement, for plinth, S^d. per foot (fig. 374) 4 : 2 374