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 532 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. 1 104. TTie Riding-Horse Stable to have a manger the same as the other stables, with circular racks in the angles. The stable to be divided in the middle with a deal partition 2 inches thick, clean-planed, beaded, and doweled on the joints, with a door of com- munication formed in it. The door-framing to be 4 inches by 3 inclies ; the door to be hung with strong cross-tailed hinges (strap hinges with a cross, sometimes shaped like a trefoil at the tail), and to have a sunk thumb sneck (a latch with the handle sunk flush with the surface of the door), the partition to go the whole way up the height of the ceiling. The front wall to be lined up with ^-inch deal from the top of the manger to the top of the rack, and to be planed, grooved, tongued, and beaded. 1105. Stable Arches. Elliptical arcJies to be put across between the back posts and over the horses, with neat wood impost mouldings at the springings ; and a thin plate of wood bent round the soffit of the arches. 1106. Trivess {Partition) Boarding. The trivess boarding to be of the same height and thickness as in the other stables, and finished on the top with an ogee and sweep, and hard-wood cope. The joists to be of the same materials, and the workmanship the same as in the other stable. The stone wall next the west front to be lined with 1-inch deal, and finished the same as the other trivesses. The ceiling to be lathed from the beam- filling, round the couples, and back ; and the whole walls and ceiling to be finished with three-coat plaster. There are to be two wood pipes made 6 inches square, to go up through the ceiling, and 2 feet through the roof above the slates ; with a flashing of lead put round the pipes to cover their joining with the slates. The 2 feet of pipes above the slates to be l)ored full of holes on all the four sides, and covered on the top with a moulded capital, on purpose to ventilate the stable. The bottom of these pipes to project below the ceiling of the stable, on purpose to admit of a shifting board to shut them up when required. 1107. Poidtry-houses. A wooden stair to be put up from the turkey-house to the hen-house, as shown by the plan ; and this hen-house and the hayloft to be joisted and floored with the old materials, &c. The stair to be covered in round the sides up to the ceiling in the turkey-house, and a door to be put up on the foot of the stair to keep the two places separate. The hen-house to be fitted up with a wooden roost, and nests on 'he north and east sides ; and the tops of the nests to be covered with a sloping thin •al cover, on purpose to keep them clean from the roosts. The ceiling of the hen-house -v, be lathed from the top of the walls, round the couples (rafters), and back ; and to be finished with two coats of plaster ; and the walls both of the hen-house and of the turkey- house to be plastered with one coat of plaster. A skylight to be put in the roof of the hen-house, 3 feet by 2 feet, glazed, and made watertight with flashings of lead. 1108. Doors. The doors to be plain deal, and 1 inch and one eighth thick; the boards to be 6 inches and a half broad, and ploughed, tongued, and beaded on the joints, with three bars on the back of each ; to be all hung with strong cross-tailed hinges (hinges like fig. 1058, which, of course, can only be used where there are wooden door- frames, or hanging posts, on which to nail the tail part, a, of the hinge) with an iron bolt through the neck, b, of each ; 1058 except the doors for the straw-barn, which are to be hung with strong crook and band hinges. The door-frames to be 6 inches by 2 inches and a half, and strongly batted into the * cheeks of the rybats ; the whole to have keeps (stops) tliree quarters of an inch thick, and of proper breadtli. 1109. The Servant's (Bailiff's) House to have a lath and standard partition on both sides, and two doors inside, 1 inch in thickness, with hinges and sneck (thumb latch). 1 1 10. Glazier's Work. The windows of the stables and byres to be glazed on the top half; the under half to be made to open with boards, and hinges and snecks. The sashes to be 2 inches thick, with proper facings, keeps, and frames. The windows of the riding-stable, boiling-house, servants' house, corn-barn, engine-house, potato-house, and turkey-house to be made with sashes and cases ; and to be glazed with good crown glass. The whole to receive one good priming coat of white lead before being glazed. 1111. The Beams (Lintels) for the Cattle Sheds to be 12 inches by 6 inches; to be all clean-planed on the front and under sides, and to have 12 inches of wall-hold on each end. 1112. The large Entrance Gate to be framed with 2^-inch wood ; styles 6 inches and a half broad, with cross rails 9 inches, and cross angular (diagonal) braces to the same, to be covered on the face with 1-inch deal grooved, tongued, and beaded on the joint, and to be made in two leaves ; a wicket door to be in one of the leaves, to be framed in a similar manner. The gates to be himg with centre-point hinges at the bottom, and crook and band hinges at the top ; and fixed at top and bottom with a very strong sliding bolt, and large thumb sneck. (Centre point, or swing hinges, appear to be of two kinds ; one with the pivot of the hinge turned down, to work in an iron socket let into a stone.