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 FARM HOUSES AND FARMERIES IN VARIOUS STYLES. 421 chamber floor, fig. 848, to a scale of twenty feet to aii inch, contains four good bed- rooms, m, n, o, Pi each with fireplaces, and all commodiously entered from the landing, q, of the stairs, r. The basement story, fig. 849, to the same scale, contains an outer cellar, s, and an inner cellar, t. There is an area, w, to the kitchen window, with a trap over a drain, v, which is conducted under the cellar floor ; in one corner of which, another trap, w, is placed over it, for carrying off any moisture spilled in the cellar. 848. Construction. The walls are of local sandstone, in random courses, with brick arches and coins ; and the window sills, lintels, labels, and chimney shafts are of Bath stone. The posts of the entrance and drying porches, are of oak and the superstruc- ture of the drying-porch is of framed oak, filled in with brick nogging flat, as shown in the elevation of the south front, fig. 850, p. 419. The roof is covered with plain tiles. The different elevations are shown in p. 420 ; fig. 851 being the north front, fig. 852 the east fi-ont, and fig. 853 the west front. The ground floor is raised three feet six inches above the general surface, and the terrace three feet ; as shown in the diflTerent elevations, by the line x, which represents the solid ground, as compared with the line y, which represents the surface of the terrace. The cellar is shown at z, in fig. 850, p. 419, in fig. 853, p. 420, and in fig. 854 ; the latter being a section across the cellar, z ; the 854 parlour, c ; the kitchen, /; and the bed-rooms, o, p. The foundations and their footings are distinctly seen in this section, and in the different elevations. Fig. 855 is an end view of the drying-porch, and fig. 856 a side iew of the same ; ii55 ^^--^ 1