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 FARM HOUSES AND FARMERIES IN VARIOUS STYLES. 489 the bottom of the standard grates) ; the back-kitchen fireplace to have a standard grate, 20 inches wide, and tlie pot to contain 16 gallons of water. The whole to be properly set with cast-iron dampers and iiru bricks ; to have end plates and a liook fixed for the top bar to fall down. The firejilaccs in the bed-rooms and parlour to have polished stone jambs, mantels, and fire slabs, and side slips where required ; each to have a sham stove of the value of 15s. each, the parlour fireplace to have metal cove plates (metal side pieces, coved to the jambs above the stoves, as in fig. 979, in which h h are the cove plates), and the whole to be properly set. 979 To pebble-pave the yard to the house, coal-house, ash-house and J^ — L shed ; the privy to be flag-paved. The front and back doors to have j/ ^3^ h < flags laid in the front of the steps, 4 feet by 4 feet. To build the -^1 H- garden wall, as shown in the plan, with common walling, 20 inches thick, and 6 feet high, with coins at the angles, and to have the coins of the gate openings scappled (broached ashlar dressed roughly with the pick end of the hammer). 982. Plasterer's Work. To plaster all the walls of the house with two-coated plaster ; and also all the jambs of doors and windows. The soflits of the same to be lath-plastered where required. The ceilings of all the rooms, passages, and of the staircase with stooth- ing partitions, to have two-coated lath-plaster ; also the partitions forming closets to have the same. The privy to have two coats of wall-plastering, and the ceiling to have two coats of lath-plaster. The lime for the whole of the above to be well prepared, and mixed with a sufficient quantity of long beast's hair ; the whole to be well smoothed off", and left free from blushes (blisters) and every other defect, when finished. The mason to cut all the holes necessary for the carpenter's and joiner's work, and for the smith's work, &c. ; also to provide lead for running in ditto. Grooves to be cut, when required, for the slating ; and the whole to be done to the satisfaction of Mr. J. Green, Architect, or whom he may appoint to inspect the same. 983. Carpenter and Joiner's Work. To provide and cut all the necessary wooden bricks ; lintels for door and window openings, and wall plates for joisting, of such scantling as will be hereafter specified. The joisting for the chamber floor to be laid level at top, and fair underside for the ceiling, and not to exceed 16 inches apart, middle and middle (from centre to centre). The joists to have 1 2 inches hold on the wall at each end, and to be laid on wall plates ; to lie trimmed for the chimneys and staircase, as may be re- quired ; and to be of such scantling as will be hereafter specified. The joisting for the parlour floor to be laid on sleeper walls, not to exceed 18 inches apart, middle and middle. The fire hearths to be boxed with 1 inch and a quarter deal. The roof to be framed, as shown in the section, with four pair of principals (principal rafters); the common rafters to be laid so as not to exceed 18 inches apart, middle and middle, a course of five-eighths inch deal sarking (boarding), 9 inches broad, to be laid along the eaves and the ridge, on each side of the roof and chimney necks (shafts) ; also five-eighths inch deal sarking laid up the gables, 2 feet wide on each side, to meet the slate laths in the middle of the second spar from the gable. The beams to be laid on raising plates, (wall plates) with a proper bearing on the same. The ceiling joists to be fixed to the underside of the tie beams, and not to exceed 16 inches apart, middle and middle. A trap-door to be made and fixed in the ceiling where directed, to give access to tiie roof. Stoothing partitions to form rooms, pantry, closets, &c., to be fixed as shown on the drawing; the stoothings (quartering) not to exceed 16 inches apart, middle and middle, the scantlings to be hereafter specified. Partition door-frames to be beaded, rabbeted, and fixed with stoothings, where shown in the drawing. The closet door-frames to be beaded, and fixed with stoothings to form closets, as shown in the di-awing. The chamber floors and parlour ditto to be laid with inch-and-quarter white-wood battens ; dressed and jointed, and well nailed to joists ; the battens to be dressed and jointed immediately after the contract is made, and horsed (set up on end in the open air to dry, against a horizontal spar or horse, the end of which ^°*^ is shown at i, in fig. 984), so as to be properly seasoned before laying down. The coal-house, shed, and privy, to be covered in with a pitched roof (a roof raised in the middle, and not at one side only, as in lean-to roofs), as shown in the drawing; scantlings hereafter specified. — Scant- lings. Chamber flooring joists, 9 inches by 2 inches and a half, 16 inches apart, middle and middle; sleeper joists for parlour, 6 inches and a half by 2 inches and a half; 18 inches apart, middle and middle ; principal rafters, 9 inches by 3 inches ; tie-beams, 8 inches by 3 inches and a half; king-posts, 11 inches by 3 inches and a half; ridge- pieces, 7 inches by 1 inch and a half; ribs, 5 inches by 3 inches and a half; strutts, 5 inches by 3 inches ; common rafters, 3 inches by 2 inches and a half; ragglings, 3 inches and a half by 2 inches ; stoothings, 3 inches by 2 inches and a half; wall plates under joists, 4 inches and a half by 1 inch and a half; raising plates under tie-beams, 6 inches and a half by 2 inches and a quarter ; lintels for doors and windows, 4 inches