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 FARM HOUSES AND FARMERIES IN VARIOUS STYLES. 491 with Scotch springs, and plain brass knobs of the value of 5s. 6d. each. Tlie closet doors to be framed in four panels of inch-and-quarter deal ; with planted mouldings on one side, to be hung with ;J-inch butt hinges, and to have closet door locks of the value of '2s. 6d. each. The front door to be framed 1 inch and three quarters thick, in 6 panels, bead and flush outside ; and hung with -1 inches and a half butt hinges on frames beaded and rabbeted, with a ligiit above. The back entrance door to be framed 1 inch and three quarters thick, in four panels, bead and butt, and hung on frames, beaded and rabbeted, with 4 inches and a half butt hinges. Each of the above doors to have a stock lock of the value of 6s., and a good Norfolk latchet. 20 feet run of pin rail (railing for hat or cloak pins) to be fixed in the kitchen where required. The trap-door, made for the ceiling, to be of half-inch deal, grooved and tongued, with beaded lining round the frame. The privy to have a boxed seat of inch-and-quarter deal, grooved and tongued, and a battened door of 1-inch deal, hung on frames, beaded and rabbeted, 4 feet by 3 feet, with T bands (hinges like fig. 982) 2 feet 'jh2 long, and to have a Norfolk latchet, with a small bolt inside. The coal-house door, and ash-house ditto, to be of inch-and-quarter deal, hung with bands (strap hinges) and crooks (hooks) run into stone cheeks (jambs), 2 feet 2 inches long, with two screw-bolts and nuts in each band. (N. B. No doors or window shutters to be hung on mouldings fixed in any jiart of the house where the plastering is unfinished, excef)t on the window grounds and skirting.) 984. Hardicare (Ironmongery). To provide all the nails, spikes, screws, &e., that may be necessary for the carpenter's and joiner's work ; also all the hardware, as before specified; two dozen of iron crooks to be fixed in the ceilings of the kitchen, or in such other parts as shall be directed. To fix along the eaves of the roof on both sides half round metal spouts (see fig. 983), wit'n two metal wall pipes. The whole to be fixed with a sufficient number of iron stays and holdfasts. 985. Slater's Work. To cover the roof of the house with Welsh slates called countesses, laid with a sufficient overlap, and well nailed, with two nails to each slate, to Memel laths 1 inch and a half by five eighths of an inch ; the laths to be well nailed to spars (common rafters). The whole to be well pointed inside with good hair and lime mortar, and inserted into grooves at the chimney necks ; also to be well pointed up the gables and along the ridge ; the whole to be sound, and left perfectly watertight when finished. 986. Glazier's and Painter's Work. To glaze all the windows with the best Newcastle second crown glass, to be well fitted and bedded in good oil putty. The windows to be primed before glazing. Pantry and dairy windows to have glass above the trellises one square in height, also the same above the front door. To paint all the outside joiner's work, viz., doors, windows, &c., and all the metal spouts, with three coats of good white lead and oil ; and all the inside joiner's work, viz. the doors, windows, mouldings, linings, skirtings, handrails, &c. &c., with two coats of white lead and oil, or with such other colours as may be required. The whole work to be well puttied up, and knotted (the knots smoothed and filled up) previously to painting. 987. Farm Offices. — Mason's Work. To dig proper trenches for the foundations of all the walls to the new buildings, the proper thicknesses, and to the depth required. To take off the covering, and pull down the walls of such of the old buildings as are to come down ; the old stones to be used for the inside of the walls to the new buildings ; and the new stones wanted, to be from the aforementioned quarry. To build stone footings to all the walls for the new buildings, as shown on the plans, 2 feet and a half wide, from good and sufficient foundations. The walls above the foundations to be 21 inches thick, with good common walling carried up to the height required, as shown in the plan, elevation, and sections. A proper bond stone to be laid through the full thickness of the wall every superficial yard (measuring on the face of the wall), and the face of the external walls to be well pointed. The coins for all the external angles of the walls to be scappled, jointed, and set; and to be 20 inches long, 12 inches deep, and 10 inches thick. Stone heads and sills to be chiseled for all the windows, the frames to be built in with the walls. The external doors to have also stone heads and sills chiseled ; the jambs to be built in and out tie, scappled and cheeked ; (hammer-dressed, as above explained, with a rebate cut out for the door to shut against, ) the in-tie to go through the full thickness of the wall, and to be 12 inches in the head ; the out-tie to be 20 inches long, and 10 inches in the head. Iron crooks to be run into stone cheeks while building for the door bands, which the carpenter will provide ; the lead to be provided by the mason. The two byres at the west end of the present old farm house to be converted into two hovels, as shown in the drawing. The present slated cart-shed to be lengthened with a new