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 FARM HOUSES AND FARMERIES IN VARIOUS STYLES. 4^20 jambs, having framed grounds beaded on edge, with quirk ogee fillet and square, to form architraves. To put an incli wrought ledged and beaded trapdoor to go into the roof, with incli rebated linings. The external doors into the entrance-porch, and the drying- porch, to be of oak, with doorcase, hinges, and linings, Sec, according to the drawing; and to have a 10-inch iron-rim drawback lock, and two 8-inch bright rod bolts to each. The cellar door to be inch proper ledged, with oak proper doorcase, 5 inches by 3 inches and a half, with lock and key, and hung with 18-inches cross garnet hinges. — Windows. To prepare a wood model, and provide cast-iron lights, casements, frames, hinges, fastenings, and stay bars to the several openings, according to the drawings. To provide stanchion bars four to each light, of an inch square wrought iron, in the daii-y, the pantry, and the store room. The dairy, the pantry, and the store room to have fly wire (wirecloth to exclude flies) inside of the windows, and the casements to open from the outside, with two panels of fly wire in the door between the pantry and the passage. The several windows to have inch window boards with rounded edge, and also three qiMrters of an inch splayed jamb linings, and soflits with framed grounds, and moulding for architraves, to match the other doors, except those in the cellar, store room, pantry, dairy, and scalding-room. The kitchen and parlours to have 1 inch and a quarter square framed folding inside shutters, with back flaps, proper hinges, and iron bar fastenings. — Skirtings. To put inch torus skirting 7 inches high in the parlour, and three quarters of an inch square skirting throughout the chamber floor. All the skirtings to have narrow beveled groimds and backings. — Staircase. To put inch steps, risers, and carriage, housed into the string boards, and 1 inch and a half close string, with moulded planceer and raking skirting. IMoulded handrail, and inch square bar balusters, with iron balusters, and turned newels. The spandril to be filled in with inch and quarter both sides square framing; and to put proper apron lining (the lining which eases the trimmer) and nosing to the landing. To put oak framed nosings to the brick steps of the cellar stairs, with oak ^vrought and rounded handrail and newel posts. To put inch and half oak pump cheeks and sills, and to case the same with inch deal, and proper cap. Sec, and to fix the same in the scalding-room. To put proper staff beads to the angles of the chimney breasts. To prepare and fix with iron holdfasts, 150 feet run of inch and quarter shelf, 12 inches wide, and brackets in the pantry, store room, or elsewhere, as may be directed. To put 2 inches and a half oak carved verge boards with crown mouldings, and carved pendants, with three quarters of an inch wrought oak soflfits to all the pediments, and eaves moulding, and three quarters of an inch soffit and bed mould, also of oak, to all the eaves. The entrance porch and drying porch also to be fitted up with oak, the whole according to the drawing of details. The carpenter and joiner to find all the materials, tools, labour, nails, glue, and every description of iron- mongery, locks, bolts, bars, hinges, and fastenings, and the carriage and fixing thereof, and every thing required for the completion of his work in the best and most workman- like manner ; and to prepare and fix all manner of beads, stops, fillets, grounds, linings, and backings required for the perfect execution of the work, whether the same may or may not be minutely specified in this particular. The whole to be done, subject to the provisions in the general particular at the end hereof. [Signed, as before, by the person undertaking the carpenter's and joiner's work.] R.S. 854. Plumber, Painter, and Glazier's Work. Plumber. To put flashings of milled lead, 8 inches wide, 5 lbs. to the foot superficial, chased into the stonework, and fixed with wall hooks to each of the chimney shafts ; and to put gutters, 1 8 inches wide, of 7 lbs. cast lead, and aprons to such as require it. To cover the middle gutter, and gutter at the drying-porch, with cast lead, 7 lbs. to the foot superficial, to turn up 8 inches under the tiles on each side, and to put 3 inches lead rain-water stack pipes, with cistern heads to bring the water to the ground in the angle of the north front, and at the dry- ing porch. To cover the valleys with 7 lbs. cast lead, 1 5 inches wide. To put proper flashings of milled lead, 5 lbs. to the foot superficial, 12 inches wide, chased into the stonework where the roofs of the scalding-room and of the porchway abut against the same. To put a 5-mch brass grate, and bell trap, and 2 inches and a half lead pipe to the sink. To put a good stout 4-inch lead pump barrel, weighing 2 qrs. 14 lbs., in the scalding-room, with 50 feet of 2 inches and a half lead suction pipe, with bucket, sucker, and iron handle complete. — Glazier's Work. To glaze and back putty all the lights and casements, with good second Newcastle crown glass. — Painter's Work. The whole of the iron frames, lights, and casements, and fly wire to be painted inside and out, four times, in good oil colour. The whole of the internal joiner's work to be knotted, primed, and painted three times in oil stone colour. The oakwork is not to be painted. — The plumber, painter, and glazier to find all materials and workmanship ; and the car- riage thereof, and every thing requisite for the performance of his work ; and to do the