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 438 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. boarding, with a iloor, hinges, and lock, to go into the pigeon-liouse end. — Cattle-shed and Hay-house at the back of the Granary. To put fir posts, 7 inches by 7 inches, wrougiit, framed, and clianifered, with iron tenons and braces circular on plan, G inches by 3 inches ; fir plates, 7 inches by 4 inches ; pitching piece, 4 inches and a half by 3 inches ; tie l)eams, 7 inches by 4 inches ; principal rafters, 5 inches by 3 inches ; struts, 3 inches by 3 inches; purlins, 5 inches by 2 inches and a half; common rafters, 13 inches apart, 4 inclies and a half by '2 inches and a half, covered with pantile laths, with oak feather-edge eaves boards. To put oak proper door-case and sill to the hay-house, 5 inches by 3 inches, with 1 inch and a quarter yellow deal proper ledged door, hung with strong hook and eye hinges, strong Norfolk latch, and 8-inch stock lock. — Cow- house, Calf-pens, and Slaughter-house. To put oak sills to the external partition in front, 6 inches by 3 inches, with fir principal posts, 6 inches by 3 inches ; common quarters and braces, 5 inches by 2 inches and a half; the head, 6 inches by 3 inches; oak wall plates, 4 inches and a half by 3 inches. The front to be covered with weatlier-boarding at bottom, and with open filleting (slips of deal nailed at one or two inches apart), at top ; to put oak proper door-posts, 5 inclies by 3 inches, with 1 inch and a quarter oak proper ledged doors, with strong hook and eye hinges and fastenings and the same to the slaugliter-house. The calf-pens to be parted off with oak posts and arris rails (rails presenting two surfaces to the eye, which two surfaces unite in forming an edge or arris between them), filled in with oak slabs, with a small gate hung on hook and eye hinges, with a hasp and staple. To put proper cow-bows (a contrivance for fixing the cow's head over the manger) and mangers for twelve cows. To put an oak proper 2-liglit window frame, and oak drip sill with iron casement, to the slaughter-house. To put tie beams, 7 inches by 4 inches ; struts, 3 inches by 4 inches ; principal rafters, 5 inches by 3 inches; purlins, 5 inches by 2 inches and a half; common rafters, 4 inches and a lialf by 2 inches and a half; ridge pieces, 9 inches by 1 inch and a half, with oak eaves board, — Fowl-houses and Piggery. The roofing to be of the same scantlings with oak eaves board, as last described ; and the window frame in the swill-house the same as that in the slaughter-house. The door and doorcases the same as those in the cow-house, with 8-inch stock locks. The partitions of the fowl-houses to be framed for brick nogging flat, with oak sills, and English fir puncheons (short pieces of timber used in framing partitions). The front of the pigsties to have oak sills with fir pun- cheons, 4 inches by 2 inches and a half, covered with weather-boarding. The division of the sties and of the back partition to be of oak posts, 5 inclies by 5 inches, with arris rails, and filled in with oak slabs. The pigsty doors to have oali frames wrought and rebated, with inch oak wrought ledged doors, with strong hook and eye liinges, and liasp and staple fastenings. To find and fix five pig troughs of cast iron, 6 feet long each. To put a proper wrought framed and beveled oak curb to the swill cisterns, 6 inches by 2 inches and a half. — The three Gates. To put oak posts wrought and chamfered, 9 inches by 9 inches, with proper sills, subsills, and braces, to the wide gates. To put cast-iron moulded and beveled caps, as in fig. 898, to the posts. To put yellow deal, 2 inches and a half, wrought, framed, and braced gates, ^.<?<v^ 898 filled in with incli yellow deal, wrought, ploughed, tongued, and beaded, v/ith proper strong wrought-iron hook and staple hinges; the staples to be fixed with nuts and screws, and bar fastenings; the large gate to be a folding one. All the gates to have wrought, beveled, and moulded capping, and strong Norfolk latches. To put 1 inch and a half oak pump cheeks and sill ; to case the same with inch deal, with proper cap, and fix the same where required. To make a proper barrel curb for the well. [Signed by the contractor, as before.] R. S. 870. Plumher, Glazier, and Painter. To put lead liglits and glass to the window frames in the slaughter-house and swill-house. To put a lead flashing, 5 pounds to the foot superficial, to tlie roof of the cattle-shed and hay-store, 1 2 inches wide, worked into the joint of the stone wall of the granary and coping, and also to the shaft of the chimney to the slaughter-house. To put a good stout 4-inch lead pump barrel, weighing 2 quarters 14 pounds, with 50 feet of 2 inches and a half lead suction pipe with bucket, sucker, and iron handle complete. To paint all the gates, doors, and window and door frames, inside and out, and all the weather-boarding outside four times in good oil coloin-. The work to be done, finding all materials, workmanship, and carriage, subject to the provision of the general particular at the end hereof. [Signed, &c., as before.] W. B. 871. Stojie-Mason. To provide and fix Portland stone bases, properly tooled and beveled, for the story posts of the granary and the cattle-slied, and to fix iron tenons in