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 528 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. 105 yards of paling in the fold-yard 15 yards of water-trough and pump 29 yards of shelves and divisions for nests in the poultry-house 10 feet superficial 1 seat and riser in the privy 61 feet superficial of stairs 57 feet suiierficial run bond timber, and harness pins 48 pairs of large crooks and bands 14 pairs of small cross-tailed bands 4 8-inch stock-locks > 8 cat bands and socket hinges (see fig. 1059, p. 533.) 20 iron straps for the cart-sheds and horse-course 1082. Recapitulation. Carpenter £457: 8: Mason 274:10: Plasterer 14: 5: O Painter 21: 8: O Thatcher, about 55: 0: O £ 457 : 8 : O £ 821 : 11

1083. General Estimate. As the cubic contents of this farmery are 78,468 feet, the above gives 2^d. per foot as the data for forming guess estimates for the north of Scotland. 1084. Remarks. We have given the foregoing specification and estimate chiefly on account of some peculiarities in the details of construction, and of some local terms. The first twelve paragraphs were taken from a printed form, which, being applicable to specifica- tions generally, is calculated to save the Architect a good deal of trouble. Such forms, both for specifications of buildings, agreements for leases, and even leases themselves, are often printed, in the case of large estates, for the convenience of the agents. The farm house to this farmery is remarkably small, and, with its chimneys in the gable ends, it has the usual commonplace air of Scotch farm houses ; cold, formal, and comfortless. There is a privy in a recess off the stable, which is all exceedingly well for the men, but quite useless for the women, who ought, at least, to have had a similar convenience, equally private, near the byre, but by no means in it, as cows are, in relation to such places, much more delicate than horses. The barn here is remarkably well placed, con- nected, as it is, with the stables on one hand and the cattle-sheds on the other. Design XXXIV. — The Farmery at Greendyhes, in Haddingtonshire, consisting of 500 arable Acres under a Six- Course Shift. 1085. Accommodation. The general appearance is shown in p. 535, and the ground plan in fig. 1054. In the latter are seen an entrance gateway, a ; two stables for eight horses each, 6 h ; hen-house, c ; two loose horse places, d d; a boiling-house, e ; two cart-sheds, //, with granaries over ; the tool-house with stairs to the granary, g ; gig-house, h ; two riding-horse stables, i i ; four cattle-sheds, k ; potato-house, I ; two cow-houses, w m ; straw-barn, n ; chaff-house, o ; corn-barn, p ; engine-house, q ; boiler, r ; coal-house, s ; smithy, t ; bailiff's house, u ; open courts, v ; piggeries, w ; feeding-troughs, x ; passage, y ; and rick-yard z. Fig. 1055 is a plan of the roofs, and of those parts of the buildings "which are two stories high. In this plan are shown the two granaries, a ; boiling-house, h, hayloft to the riding-horse stables over the gig-house, c; barn, d; and chimney to the boiler of the steam-engine, e. 1086. Construction. The walls are of local freestone, and the roofs of Baltic timber, covered with slate. Fig. 1052 is an elevation of the west front, and fig. 1053 is an 1052 sA 1053 njo o v