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 FARM HOUSES AND FARMERIES IN VARIOUS STYLES. 4^7 substantial, and workmanlike manner ; and in the progress of the buiklin{j no part of the work to be raised more than 4 feet above the other, except in the pediments, but the whole to be carried up in a regidar and equal manner. To fix the wooden bricks, and to bed all the plates, bond timber, and lintels in loam. To cut all the rakes and splays, and all the chasings required for tlie lead flashings ; to make good and stop the same with Roman cement ; to bed and point the door frames in lime and hair, and to underpin the sills. To cover the whole of the roofing with old sound plain tiles (old are preferred for their picturesque effect) laid on straw to a 7^inch gauge, with heart of oak laths, the hips, ridges, and eaves in mortar : the straw to be of equal thickness throughout, and in sufficient quantity to exclude the light : 835 no crooked, cracked, or cornerless tiles to be used ; and the whole of the tiling to be done with particular care, so as perfectly to exclude the snow, rain, and wind. (The gauge of plain tiling is reckoned from ' the distance which the first and third laths are apart, measuring from centre to centre. For a 7^-inch gauge, the workman nails on a lath, and, with a measure or gauge 7 inches and a half long, finds the place of the third lath ; and, having fixed that, nails another lath between. Tliis aiTangement, when the tiles are hung on, causes them to overlap, so as to show uncovered 3 inches and a quarter of each course. By this means the third tile overlaps the first 2 inches and a half, which makes the work rmper^-ious to rain. This will be rendered clear by the section fig. 885 ; in which a a are the tUes ; b h, the laths ; and c c, the wooden pegs, by which the tiles are hung on the laths.) The fillets, listings, and verges to be of Roman cement. (The fiUets are narrow strips of lime and hair, or cement, put to cover the horizontal joints, where tiling abuts against walls ; the listings are the same upon an inclined plane. The verges are the external edge of the tiling in gables, which are covered with lime and hair, or Roman cement. ) The bricklayer to find all the materials, ropes, boards, tackle, tools, workmanship, and ironwork, for the completion of his work, and the carriage thereof; to do the whole in the best and most workmanlike manner ; and to colom' twice over in good stone colour, to match the stone part of the chimney shafts, the whole of the brick coins and brick part of the chimney shafts. To do all the beam-filling, and wind-pinning required. The whole to be done subject to the pro- visions of the general particular at the end. 850. Plasterer's Work. To lath, lay, set, and colour stone colour, the gable of drving- porch. To lath, lay, set, and white the ceilings of basement story and scalding-room, and to lime-white the walls twice over. — Ground Floor and Chamber Ston,-. To lath, lay, set, and white the whole of the ceilings, except the parlour, which is to be lath, lav, float, set, and whited. To lath, lay, and set the whole of the battenings and strings of the stairs ; and to render set the walls and nogging partitions, so as to fit them for colouring, and in the parlour for papering. All the timbers of the partitions to be diagonal-lathed. The plasterer to find all materials, tools, tressels, boards, moulds, rules, carriage, and workmanship required for the completion of his work ; and to do the same in the best and most workmanlike manner, subject to the provisions in the general particular at the end hereof. [The same person contracts for both the brick- layer's and the plasterer's work, and signs this particular in the following form : — ] I, the undersigned, hereby undertake to perform the foregoing bricklayer's and plasterer's work for the sum of four hundred and eighty-five pounds five shillings and eleven pence. S. B. 851. Mason's Work. To pave with Yorkshire stone paving, properly squared in courses, the porchway, the dairy, and the scalding-room ; the dairy floor to be rubbed ; with proper holes for stink-traps where required ; with Yorkshire steps and risers where shown in the plan, and with a solid Yorkshir-e step at the entrance door of the house. To put Yorkshire curb stones to the drying-porch and area, 5 inches by 4 inches, pro- perly cramped, and run with lead. To put plain Portland stone shelves, mantels, jambs, slips, and bases to the chambers ; and the same, with profiles, and reeded shelf and turned pateras (the representation of a cup in has relief, a common ornament in friezes), in par- lours, with Yorkshire stone hearths, and Portland stone slabs to each. The kitchen to have inch-and-three-quarters Portland stone mantel jambs and shelf. To put a Yorkshire stone sink in the scalding-room, 5 feet long, and 2 feet 3 inches wide, with proper hole for washer. To put moulded window frames, labels, and chimney shafts of Bath stone, properly cramped and run with lead, according to the drawings, and properly to fix, and run with lead, the iron frames, lights, and stanchion bars. To put milled slate benches in the dairy, an inch and a quarter thick, with rounded edges, and milled slate skirting z z