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 426 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. Fig. 883 is a section showing the footings of the walls, and their depth under the original surface line, k k, of the ground on which they are built. 883 £ } 14 Hi 884 I H U 18

Fig. 884 is a section showing the relative height of the ground floor, I, and the surface of the terrace, m. In this figure are also shown the joists of the ground floor, n ; the wall plate on which they are placed, o ; and the chain plate, p, which is continued round the whole building. Particulars of the several Works to he done in huilding a Bailiff's Cottage at Bury Hill, near Dorking, Surrey, for Charles Barclay, Esq., according to the Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Details, severally signed by the Parties undertaking the same. 849. Excavator's, Bricklayer's, and Well-digger's Work. To dig out the earth for the basement story, and the several trenches for the foundations of the whole of the building, of the respective depths and widths required, and to fill in and well ram round the work. Surplus earth arising therefrom to be spread round the building, to form a terrace, as shown in the plan. To dig a well in the dairy scullery, 4 feet clear in diameter, 45 feet deep ; to steen the same in 4-inch brickwork, and to dome it over in 9-inch brickwork. The soil and rubbish which may be made during the carrying on of the works to be taken out of the building, from time to time, as occasion may require. All the bricks to be used in the building, or brought upon the premises, to be sound and good well- burned stocks. The mortar to be composed of the best well-burned grey lime, and clean sharp sand, well tempered together. The footings and foundations to be built of sand- stone, and below the ground line to be grouted with hot lime and sand. The remain- der of the walls above ground to be built of sandstone laid in neat random courses, with a flat joint garreted on the external face ; the stones to be properly headed and prepared, and flushed solid in mortar ; the whole of the coins, arches, and inverted arches to be of brickwork, and all the walls to be built of the several heights and thick- nesses shown in the drawings, leaving the several apertures therein described. The chimney breasts, jambs, and backs to be of brickwork, with inverted arches under the lowest fireplaces, the flues to be properly gathered and pargeted (this operation is usually performed with loam and cow-dung ; but quicklime and pounded brick are found far better, and are now generally used by the best London builders), 1 2 inches in diameter in the clear. A strong iron chimney bar (see § 602, fig. 542) to be put to each of the fireplaces, and 4-inch brick trimmers to be turned where required. To build stone foundations for the porchways, stone underpinning for the partitions, brick foundations for the sink and to the dairy steps, and an area of 9-inch brickwork to the cellar window, paved with bricks, with sinkhole and drain to deliver the water into the main di-ain. To pave the cellar and passage adjoining with building bricks laid flat in mortar ; and the pantry, store room, and kitchen with dressed paving bricks, bedded and jointed in mortar ; and to wheel in such sand as may be required for properly levelling and current- ing the same. To put hollow tile drains, 7 inches clear in the bore, where shown by dotted lines in the plan ; altogether a length of 200 feet ; and to provide and fix 6 east- iron stink-traps, 8 inches square, one at each of the external apertures thereof; the whole to be laid with a proper fall, and suflScient depth to deliver the water away from the lowest part of the building. To pave the drying-porch with pebbles ; to build brick steps, and to bed the oak nosings (the nosing of a step is the front part of the tread, between the line formed by the meeting of the riser with the tread) to the cellar stairs. To build the foundations, the enclosure walls, and an oven 4 feet by 3 feet 9 inches in the clear, properly domed, plastered, and paved ; and to find and fix the requisite iron- work and door for the same complete. To build brick benches, with 4-inch arches and piers, in the dairy, to receive a slate covering. To fill in the nogging partitions with brick nogging flat. The bricklayer to find scaffolding and ladders, and to fix and refix the same as occasion may require, as well for his own work as for the other trades requiring the use of them ; and to allow the same to remain till the external part of the house and chimney shafts shall be completed. The walls to be carried up in an ujiright,