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 FAUM HOUSES AND FARMERIES IN VARIOUS STYLES. 487 973 back-kitchen, c, with four bed-rooms and a closet over. There are also a dairy, d ; coal- house and shed, e ; ash-house and privy,/; and garden, surrounded by a wall, g. The farmery contains a stable for nine horses, h ; a hay-house, t ; three hovels with their fold- yards, k ; a straw-house, with granary over, / ; a barn, m ; stack-yard, n ; stable for four horses, o ; foal-house, p ; cow-houses, q ; calf-house, r ; piggeries, s ; cart-shed, t ; and two cottages, u u. 978. Construction. The walls are of the freestone found upon the estate ; the timber is of Baltic fir, and the covering of the roofs of Westmoreland slate. There is nothing pe- culiar or specific in the fitting up of the buildings composing the farmery ; and the interior of the dwelling-house is finished in the usual manner, as appears by the section, fig. 974. As a specimen of the manner in which the particular, or specification, of the work to be done in buUding a farm house and offices in Northumberland is made out, we are enabled, through the kindness of ISIr. Green, to subjoin the following form, being that actually made for rebuilding this farm : — 979. Specijication ayid Description of the several works to new farm buildings intended to be erected at Hallington New Houses, on the estate of J. Errington, Esq., of Beau- front, in the county of Northumberland, according to the plans, elevations, and sections hereunto annexed. 980. The Contractors shall, at their own cost and charge, provide all and every kind of material ; labour, including the digging and quarrying stones ; workmanship ; tools ; travelling, lodging, and every other expense attendant on the works, except cartage, which is to be supplied by the tenant. All the materials to be of good quality of their several kinds ; and the mortar for building the walls to be composed of good well-burnt lime, mixed with clean sand ; using not less than one cart-load of lime to three cart-loads of sand, and having them well mixed and beaten together with water. The stones to be got from a quarry which is to be opened on the farm ; the contractor to find labour for opening and laying bare the stone ; but the tenant to supply what cartage may be neces- 3 G