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 490 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. thick, by the breadth required ; wall plate at foot of spars, 9 inches by 1 inch and a quarter ; partition door-frames, 4 inches and a half by 3 inches and a quarter ; closet door-frames, 3 inches and a (juarter by 3 inches; -external door-frames to house, 4 inches and three quarters liy 3 inches and a half; principal rafters for shod and coal-house roofing, 6 inches and a half by 2 inches and a half; common i-afters, 2 inches and a half by 2 inches and a quarter ; ribs, 4 inches and a half by 3 inclies and a quarter ; wall plates, 6 inches and a half by 1 inch and a quarter ; ridge pieces, 6 inches by 1 inch and a half; ])an plate, wall plate, and lintel, 3 inches and a half thick. — Windows. All the windows for the house to have boxed sash frames of red-wood deal. The frames to have 1-inch pulley stiles (hollow stiles, containing the pulleys, lines, and weights, for balancing the sashes), outside linings of three-quarters-inch deal ; and beaded inside linings of half-inch deal, with the sash sill double sunk (see fig. 981), 3 inches and a half tliick by the breadth required. The heads to be of 2 inch deal, boxed out the breadth of the side frames ; three-eighths- c [ 981 inch parting (separating) beads grooved into pulley stiles; inside beads, three quarters of an inch and seven eighths of an inch broad; the sashes to be 1 inch and three quarters, stuck (worked) with astragal and hollow ; sash bar, five eighths of an inch thick ; the stile of sashes to be 1 inch and three quarters broad. The whole to be single hung with cast-iron weights and proper sash line ; and to have cast-iron framed pulleys; each window to have a brass sash fastener fixed, of the value of Is. 9d. The low room (ground floor) windows to have inside shutters framed of inch-and-quarter deal, in two panels, planted (inlaid) moulding, plain back flaps of three-quarters-inch deal, clamped at the ends ; shutters to be hung with two inches and a half metal butt hinges ; and the back flaps with 1 inch and a half wrouglit-iron ditto, and screws. Each shutter to have a plain brass knob, and a window shutter bar, 2 feet and a half long, fixed to each window. All the windows to have inch-and-cjuarter deal bottoms, with plain backs and elbows (casings round the window seats) of 1-inch deal beaded ; the upper edge and plain soflfits to be of three- quarters-inch deal, grooved and tongued. The parlour window to have framed backs and elbows down to the floor, with a framed soflit of inch-and-quarter deal, to corre- spond with shutters. The plinth to be fixed round the windo%v, 4 inches and a half broad. Framed grounds 4 inches and a half by 1 inch and a quarter, beaded and splayed inside, to be fixed round the windows in the parlour and in the two kitchens, with a three- quarters-inch ogee back moulding. The upper room windows to have a three- quarters-inch angle bead fixed round the jambs and heads. The dairy and pantry windows to be made with solid frames, 3 inches and a half by 3 inches ; to have sliding trellises inside, with glass above, one square in height ; and to have inch-and-quarter deal bottom made level with shelving. The jambs and heads to have a three-quarters- Inch angle bead fixed. The dairy and pantry shelving to be fixed, as shown on the plan, by dotted lines ; to have three shelves in height ; their united breadths not to be less than 4 feet ; and to have proper framed bearers. All the external angles of the chimney, breasts, jambs, and heads of door openings to have three-quarters-inch angle beads fixed, and on such other places as require them. The closets to be fitted up, as shown in the drawing, with 3 shelves in height, of 1-inch deal ; their united breadths not to measure less than 3 feet. The stairs to be fitted up in one flight, as shown on the plan, with inch-and-quarter deal steps and risers. The steps to have rounded nosings chimed (let in) at both ends into stringings, which are to be of inch- and-half deal, and 10 inches broad ; with a dressed and beaded upper edge to answer as skirting. A wrought deal handrail to be fixed to stoothings on each side of the stairs. Moulded skirting to be fixed round the parlour of 1-inch deal, 6 inches broad ; to be fixed to the wall with plugs. I'lain skirting of three-quarters-inch deal, 4 inches and a half broad, to be fixed round the kitchen, back-kitchen, passages, bed- rooms, &c. The parlour fireplace to have a j)lain pilaster chimney-piece, 4 inches and a half broad, with shelf and frieze. The bed-room fireplaces to have a single fire moulding, with a plain shelf and frieze. The two kitchen fireplaces to have each a chimney shelf of inch-and-quarter deal, fixed with ogee brackets. All the room door-frames to have a three-quarters-inch quirk ogee moulding, planted (fixed) round on each side, also round the closet door-frames, to cover the plastering. The upper room doors, and the dairy and pantry ditto, to be framed in four panels of inch-and-half deal, finished and planted on one side. To be hung on frames, with 3 inches and a half butt hinges, and each to have a good Norfolk latchet (latch). The cheese-room door and pantry ditto to have iron-rimmed locks of the value of 2s. 6d. each, with escut- cheons. The low room doors to be also framed in four panels of inch-and-half deal finished, planted moulding, l)oth sides hung on frames, with 3 inches and a half butts ; the parlour door and kitchen ditto next to the stairs to have each an iron-rimmed lock