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 FARM HOUSES AND FARMERIES IN VARIOUS STYLES. 437 be properly pargeted, with a second-size chimney pot, well flanched up with plain tiles and Roman cement. The shaft and pot to be coloured stone colour. All the door and window frames to be properly bedded and j)ointed with good lime and hair mortar, and the sills to be underpinned. To build underpinning of stonework, with proper footings for the partitions where required, and foundations for the stone bases to the cattle-shed. To put a coping of semicircular bricks, 1 4 inches wide, to the fence wall, the back of the hay-store, and the front of the pigsties, set in Roman cement, with proper stay irons at all the coins. To fill in the nogging partitions with brick Hogging flat. To pave the four fowl-houses with paving bricks, flat bedded and jointed in mortar. To pave the coal places, pigs' lodgings, and slaughter-house with brick stock paving on edge in sand. The passage, cow-house, calf-pens, cattle-shed, hay-house, and pigs' yards to be paved with pebbles laid in sand, properly currented and i-ammed. To build and pave proper swill cisterns of brick, set in Roman cement, and rendered inside with the same, so as to be perfectly watertight. To colour twice over in good stone colour the brickwork of all the coins, arches, and coping. To lime-white the inside of the slaughter-house and fowl- houses. To bed all the plates, bond, templets (short pieces of timber laid under girders and beams, to distribute the weight), and lintels, in mortar. To cover the roof of the cattle-shed and hay-store with pantiles jointed in mortar ; to build foundations for the posts, and to cover all the other roofe with hoop chips from large hoops, finding straw, binders, rods, twine, &c., and laths. The bricklayer is to find all the materials, carriage, scaffolding, tools, workmanship, and ironwork for the completion of his work, in the best and most substantial manner. The whole to be done under the inspection and to the satisfaction of the Architect, subject to the several conditions contained in the general particular at the end hereof. [Signed by the bricklayer, in the same form as before.] S. B. 869. Carpenter and Joiner. The whole of the materials to be provided and sawed out square, free from wane, of the several scantlings herein specified ; to be carted to the spot by the contractor, and to consist of the best yellow Dantzic or Memel fir, or English oak, free from sap, shakes, or large loose knots. To frame the whole of the carpentry in a workmanlike manner, according to the drawings ; finding labour, nails, and all kind of ironwork for the purpose, subject to the provisions of the general par- ticular at the end hereof. — Waggon-house with Granary over To put oak story posts (upright timbers supporting brestsummers or girders), 9 inches by 9 inches, and circular braces, 8 inches by 9 inches, wrought, framed, and chamfered ; each post to have a square iron tenon let into the stone base. To put wall plates of oak under the floor and roof, 4 inches and a half by 2 inches and a half, with fir sills to the external partition, 12 inches by 6 inches. To put fir girders, 12 inches by 1 2 inches ; each girder to be fixed with a three quarters of an inch iron screw pin and nut to the sill, and to have an iron tie, with an S iron through the wall, properly spiked to the girder. The joists to be framed into girders, 1 2 inches by 2 inches and a half, 1 2 inches apart. The external partition to have principal quarters, 6 inches by 6 inches, with common quarters and braces, 12 inches apart, 6 inches by 3 inches and a half; head, 6 inches by 6 inches, covered with oak or yellow deal weather-boarding and fillets, with flauch board and brackets at bottom. To lay the floor with inch and quarter yellow deal, wrought, ploughed, and tongued. To put 3 tiers of bond, 4 inches by 3 inches, ui the walls of the granary. To put fir proper window frames, filled in with three quarters of an inch deal wrought luffer-boards housed into the frames ; with oak wrought and beveled drip sills to the front and back windows. To put an oak proper doorcase, 5 inches by 3 inches and a half, to the granary, with oak drip sill, 9 inches by 3 inches and a half, with inch and quarter deal proper ledged door, hung with strong hook and eye hinges, and with a strong iron-rim lock. To put a step-ladder of 2-inch oak, with the steps housed into the sides with three iron screw braces and nuts. The steps to be fixed with strong iron hook and eye hinges to the sill. — Roof. To put fir tie beams, 9 inches by 4 inches ; king posts, 9 inches by 3 inches, with three quarters of an inch iron screw pins 2 feet long, with nuts 3 inches long, mortised through the king posts ; struts, 3 inches by 3 inches ; framed principal rafters, 6 inches and a half by 3 inches at bottom, and 5 inches by 3 inches at top, fixed at each end with screw pins to the tie beams. Purlins, 5 mches by 3 inches, notched on the back of the principal rafters. Pole plate, 4 inches and a half by 3 inches ; common rafters, 1 3 inches apart, 4 inches and a half by 3 inches ; ridge pieces, 9 inches by 1 inch and a half, with oak eaves board. The joists, to receive the pigeon-house floor, laid on tie beams, are to be 6 inches by 2 inches and a half, trimmed for a trapdoor ; the floor is to be of inch deal, rough, with edges shot, ploughed, and tongued, with trapdoor and hinges, and step-ladder, complete. To put 1 inch and a quarter oak shelves and penthouse to the pigeon-holes, with oak cantilevers to support them. A rough partition to be put across in the loof, covered with weather-