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 5^26 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. day of, or else the contractor shall and will allow the sum of £5 per week, as liquidated damages, for each week he may exceed the time allowed for being ready witii the roof, for covering in, or for the completion of the works ; and which sum or sums will be deducted from the balance due to the contractor, remaining in the hands of the proprietor. 10G7. Joistiiu/. All the wall plates to be 7 inches by 1 inch and a half. The sleepers in the dressing-l)arn (the part of the barn appropriated for dressing corn) to be 6 inches by 2 inches and a half, built in as described in the mason's work. The joisting of the barn and granary floors to be 10 inches l)y 2 inches and a half, with 1 foot of wall hold. The cart-sheds to have a joist 8 inches by 2 inches and a half, built into the wall at each pillar, and chaeked to the lintling beams, 9 inches by 12 inches, and screwed to the same with a half-inch bolt, the other end of the same joist to be chaeked to the wall plate in the same manner. 1068. Doors. The whole of the doors to be made of Tarlogie deals, not more than 6 inches wide, and 1 inch and a quarter thick, ploughed and beaded on the joists, with three l^-inch cross bars, and well nailed. The stable, byre, and barn doors to be hung in two leaves. The whole of the doors to be hung with crooks and bands ; the crooks to be laid on the bed of the rybats ; the crook to be split in the tail (in order to serve instead of a rivet), and to have 7 inches hold of the stone, and to be well batted (run) in with lead ; the pin of the crook to bo 1 inch and an eightli in diameter ; each crook to weigh 3 pounds and a half. The bands to be 22 inches long, three eighths of an inch thick at the neck, and 2 inches broad, with |^-incli screw-bolt to the neck of eacli ; each band to weigh 4 pounds and a half. The band nails to have counter-sinik lieads, and properly riveted ; sunk ring latches to all the doors, and 8-inch stock locks to the granary, barn, poultry-house, milk-house, and coal-cellar doors only. 1069. Windows. The frames of the barn and milk-house windows to be 2 inches thick, and filled in at bottom with boards 16 inches high, liimg to frames on ci'oss-tailed bands, and glazed above with third crown glass ; those in the granary, stables, !kc., to be filled in with weather-boards 6 inches wide and 1 inch thick, chamfered on the outer edges, hinig with iron pivots in a frame 3 inches by 2 inches, having a strap of iron attached to the inside, and movable up and down, to admit air when wanted. 1070. Stables. The hind posts of the trevises (partitions) to be octagons of 6 inches and a half in diameter above the pavement, and sunk in solid masonry, as shown in the section, fig. 1050 ; the part built in to be charred, and the tops to be rounded. The fore posts to be 4 inches and a half by 2 inches, the foot set in a stone; 1^-inch trevise-boards to be mortised into the hind post, which must be set 8 feet from the front wall. 'I'he trevises to be 6 feet high at the front posts, and 4 feet and a half high at the hind posts ; to have angle warpings (braces) 4 inches by 1 inch and a half, and to be nailed with double double nails (20rf. ). Mangers to be, as shown, of 1^-inch Tarlogie deals. The under racks to be 2 feet 3 inches high, and to have a run beam 4 inches by 3 inches, rounded on the upper edge, with rings for fastening the horses. A piece of bond timber, 4 inches by 3 inches, to be built into the walls for harness-pins. 1 07 1 . Gates. The posts to be as the hind posts of the stables, and to stand 9 inches above the gates ; the hinge post of the gate to be 5 inches by 4 inches ; the front post, 4 inches by 5 inches ; the angle spar, 1 inch and a half by 3 inches ; the spars to be three quarters of an inch by 3 inches and a half; the top spar will be Ij-inch square iron, with shoulder and eye at the hinge post, diminishing to three quarters of an inch square at the front post, with a screw and nut. The crooks to be put into the gate-posts with a screw and nut. 1072. Sundries. The linteling beams to the horse-course to be 12 inches square, and to be tied at the angles with iron strajjs 2 inches and a half by three eighths of an inch, and 20 inches long, and to be chaeked together ; the rafters to be 6 inches and a half, and 6 inches by 2 inches and a half, with 2 balks in height, chaeked and spiked together with double garron nails, and mortised into the octagonal post at top 6 inches in dia- meter ; #-inch square cat bars (a cat bar is an iron bar three quarters of an incli square, for keeping a folding-door fast when shut ; it has a ring at one end for fastening to the wall with a staple, and is bent at the other end, so as to hook into the door by another staple on the inside) to all the two-leaved doors ; to provide a seat and riser to privy, and a ventilator over the boiler in the milk-house. 1073. Mason. All the excavating will be done by the proprietor. The whole of the stones used to be fixnn the (juarry of Balnascarrish. The mortar to be made of good ivell-burnt English lime, and landed at Portmahomack, with sharp sand in the pro- portion of two parts of lime to three jiarts of sand, the whole being well tempered and beat before being used. The foundations to be laid with flat-bedded stones laid in regular courses, and to be taken in by regular scarsements (sets back) as shown in the sections ; all the internal gables to be carried up to the roof; the sleepers to be laid and built into the