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 FARM HOUSES AND FARMERIES IN VARIOUS STYLES. 531 plac, 6 inches square, with a droved liewn stone on the outside of the wall 16 inches square, with a 6-inch hole cut through it to ventilate the stable. 1098. Serva7its' Houses. ITie vents (chimneys) of the servants' houses and boiling- houses to be carried up at 11 inches square inside, and to be properly plastered. 1099. Sto?iework generally. In building the pillars for the gates to the open courts, proper care must be taken that large weiglity stones be put at their proper places for fixing in the iron crooks. The tradesman to get the old stones at Greendykes and Arniston which will be pointed out by Mr. C. The tradesman will also furnish the whole of the other stones, and the lime that wiU be required for finishing the building ; the hewn and rubble stones are to be taken from the Jerusalem quarry, the whinstones for the west front from Bangley, and the pavement from the quarries at Salton limeworks. AU to be of the best quality the several quarries will produce ; and Mr. C. to furnish the whole of the carriages of every description ; but the tradesman must take down and clear out the old stones, and prepare them for carting, and also furnish bricks for the engine vent of the best quality. 1100. Carpenter's Work. The soles and lintels to be 3 inches thick, with a wall-hold (their ends deeply inserted into the wall) on each end of the head and sill of the frames, 9 inches in length, and of width sufficient to fill up the space required. The whole of the joisting for the granary and barn to be 11 inches by 2 mches, and 1 6 inches apart, with a ^-all-hold on each end of 9 inches ; and the joisting to be laid on wall plates 7 inches by 14 inches. The joisting over the mill-loft (floor for the unthreshed corn, from which, being fed into the upper part of the machinery, it comes out separated into corn and straw, in the floor below) and granaries to be covered with a flooring of boards not exceeding 6 inches and a half broad, and 1 and one eighth of an inch thick, and to be ploughed and tongued on the edges. Two strong joists to be in the mill-loft, 1 1 inches by 6 inclies, and three cross framings of the same size on each side of the shaker, and one at the spur-wheel (a wheel on the main shaft with the cogs or teeth standing outwards, which operates on a pinion), as shall be directed by the millwright. 1101. The Corn-barn to be laid with sleepers and flooring; the sleepers to be 5 inches by 2 inches and a half, and 1 6 inches apart ; the flooring to be the same as above speci- fied ; the wall-plates below the sleepers to be 7 inches broad by 1 4 inches thick. 1102. Roofing. The scantling for the roofing to be 6 inches at bottom by 5 inches at top, by 2 inches and a half thick, and placed 18 inches apart. Wall-plates to be 7 inches by 1 inch and a quarter ; baulks (tie or collar beams) to be 6 inches by 2 inches and a quarter. The sarking to be three quarters of an inch thick, and close- jointed on the edges. The flank-trees (valley rafters) to be 7 inches at bottom and 6 inches at top, by 3 inches and a half thick ; and the pien-trees (hip rafters) to be 7 inches broad and 2 inches thick. The partition in the corn-barn to be of standards (quarters) 4 inches by 2 inches, 18 inches apart, and covered on one side with deals a quarter of an inch thick, clean-planed, beaded, grooved, and tongued on the edges ; with a door through to the chafF-hole. A trap-stair and wood-rail to be put up to the same, and round the opening at the landing from the corn-bam to the mill-loft. There is to be also a wooden trap from the straw-bam to the mill-loft, 2 feet wide, and of proper strength for carrying up the refuse from the shaker. There are to be two skylights put into the roof of the miU-loft, 3 feet long by 2 feet wide, for gi^•ing light to the machinery ; and these are to be glazed, having flashings of lead round the slates weighing 4 lbs. and a half per foot. 1103. Working-Horse Stables. The working-horse stables to be fitted up with racks and mangers, and trivess boarding. The trivess boarding to be 7 feet high in front, and 8 feet at the back end; with hard-wood (oak, ash, elm, &c. ) coping on ditto. The top of the coping to be 2 inches and a half by 2 inches, and the boarding to be 1 inch and a half thick, and doweled on the joints. The mangers to be 10 inches wide at bottom, and 14 inches wide at top, by 10 inches deep, and the boards 1 inch and a quarter thick. A breast-tree (horizontal rail) to be put in front of the manger, 4 inches by 2 inches and a half, rounded in front. This tree to be of oak, with proper iron rings and staples for fixing the horses. The rack sides (top and bottom rails) to be 4 inches by 2 inches and a quarter, and to be fitted in with turned rack staves, 2 inches in diameter, with a rail 6 inches broad, opposite each trivess, and the rack staves to be made of beech ; the back posts of the trivesses to be made of oak 6 inches square, rounded on the angles, and mortised into a run-tree (a raU fixed along the tie-joists) at top, and let 2 inches into the stone at bottom ; the front posts to be 4 inches by 2 inches and a quarter, and one on each side of the trivess to be rounded on one side. There are to be 16 tie-joists across the stables, 7 inches by two inches and a half; and clean-planed for fixing the run-tree. The run-tree to go the whole length of the stable, to be 6 inches by 3 inches, and clean-planed. There are to be a sufficient number of harness- pins and saddle-trees put up behind the horses and on the posts.