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 FARM HOUSES AND FARMERIES IN VARIOUS STYLES. 527 same, and the dwarf walls to be 14 inches thick. The walls to be built of the heights and thicknesses shown and figured in the drawings, and the whole to be beam-filled at the top. No wall to be at any time more than 3 feet higher than the other walls, until each wall has been raised to its intended height. The door soles (sills) to be laid six inches above the causeway (or pavement) outside; the soles of the stable, byre, &c., to be laid 3 inches above the same, and the whole to be beveled (sloped outwards) on the top. 1074. Hewn Work. All the external corners to be droved (tooled) with broached tails (a regular breadth on each side of the angle of the corner stones to be hewn smooth, and the remainder of tlie stone to be rough-hewn, like the rest of the wall). The rybats (reveals), soles, and lintels of the doors and windows to be droved, with broached tails ; all the rybats and corners to be 2 feet long at least, and the inband rybats (headers) to pass through the thickness of the walls ; all the skews and tabling to be droved, and the shed- pillars, arches, and the chimney-tops to be broached ; the shed and gate pillars to be chamfered 3 inches on the angles. 1075. Causewayiitg. The wliole of the stables, byre, sheds, &c., to be laid with whin- stone set in sharp sand ; the settles (gutters or channels) to have 2 inches fall in 10 feet ; the stable channels to be 10 feet from the front wall, and the rise fi-om them to the rack to be 5 inches. All the doors, windows, &c., to be saved with rough arches (to have discharging arches) over the same. All the spurs (lower stones of the raking part of the gable, called in England the summer stones) to be 2 feet and a half long each. The whole of the rough walls to be pointed and harled (roughcast) outside, and the whole to be pointed inside. 1076. Plasterer. To plaster the walls of the granary and the dressing-barn with one coat of plaster with pounded glass mixed in the mortar, to prevent vermin from getting in. 1077. Painter. The whole of the doors, windows, gates, and all exposed wood and iron work, to have three coats of oil paint, of a colour to be chosen by the proprietor. Detailed Estimate of the Expense of erecting the Farm Steading of, referred to in the above Specification, 1078. Mason. 308 roods (36 square yards in each rood) rough walls of the standard thickness (2 feet), and harled 433 yards of causewaying with whinstone, laid in sharp sand 47 yards of paving with flags in the straw-house 365 superficial feet of droved hewn work (labour only) 200 superficial feet of broached do. (do. do.) 9893 superficial feet of run 4-inch tabling and skew stones ; the ma- terials only; the labour being included in the droved work 96 superficial feet of door and window soles and lintels, do 16 lineal feet of vent 1 copper and furnace to set 21 posts built in solid work, 3 feet in diameter 1 8 steps broached to the gangway to the granary Tools, tackle, scaffolding, &c ^ 274 : 10 : 1079. Plasterer. 417 yards of one-coat plaster £ 14: 5: 1080. Painter. 428 yards of three-coat paint and knotting £ 21 : 8 : 1081. Carpenter. 169 cubic feet in lintels, &c 1227 yards of roofing and cabers (laths for thatch) 271 yards of flooring and joists 264 yards of l|-inch three-barred doors (ledged doors with 3 back- boards) ... 1 93 yards of windows 56 yards of gates 43 yards of sleepers and flooring 45 yards of trevises, &c. complete 55 yards of racks, &c 41 yards of do. in byre 75 yards of do. in cattle-sheds 93 yards of centres for arches 3 u