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 COUNTRY INNS AND PUBLIC HOUSES. 1298 079 two parlours, c; passage, d, to the garden, x; store-room, e; bar,y; family sitting-room, g ; back parlour, h ; back stairs, t ; water-closet, k ; tap-room, / ; kitchen, with oven and hot water boiler, m ; back-kitchen and scullery, n ; coal-house, o ; larder and pantry, p; dust-hole, q ; boot-closet, r ; covered yard for gigs, chaises, &c., s ; stables, 1 1 ; coach- house, w; privies for servants, vv; stable-yard, «•; garden, a-; veranda for skittles, y; and liquid manure tank, 2. The chamber-floor, fig. 1296, has two sitting-rooms, aa; and a large room for balls, or public meetings, b ; the ceiling of this last room is on a level with the ceilings of the rooms of the attic story, and is marked, in fig. 1297, by the same letters. All the other rooms in the chamber-floor and attic story, figs. 1296 and 1297 (thirty in number), are sleeping-apartments. 1423. Construction. The walls are supposed to be of brick, and the roof covered with Peake's Itah'an tiles, such as are shown in § 50 or in § 1 368 ; the eaves being supported by wrought cantalivers. To render the bed-rooms fire-proof, the joists may be covered with plain tiles bedded in Roman cement, and having a coating over them" of the same material; the tiles and cement being closely joined to the brickwork of the walls, and the skirting being formed of stucco or cement. The floors, after being made a year or more, may be washed over with oil, and painted either a plain colour or an invitation of any particular kind of wood, marble, or stone. The ceilings may be formed in the same manner. The staircases may be of cast-iron, the treads being covered with stone- plates. The garden, x, is shown with a circular grass-plot in the centre, and a border of evergreen and deciduous shrubs and flowers nest the walls. The kitchen-garden and farm are not seen in this plan. 1424. General Estimate- The cubic contents of this building are 201,908 feet ; which, at 5d. per foot, is £4203 : 85. : 4d., the probable cost of an edifice in this style, plainly finished, in the neighbourhood of London.