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 746 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. up full and flush in all the joints, and take care that no headers are executed with any but whole bricks, except where absolutely necessary to use half bricks. 'I'urn brick trimmers in cement for all slabs, and turn arches over all the openings and the ends of all the girders. Bed all the door and window frames and sills in lime and hair, and point them ail afterwards with cement ; parget the flues with lime and brickdust cement. Build all half-brickwork at the back of the windows, &c., the three upper courses of the chimney-shafts, and the open drains under the privies in Parker's cement, and render ditto inside. Build the garden fence walls all round the ground (which is 10.5 feet net from east to west, and 50 feet net from north to south) of the same kind and descrip- tion as is shown in the plan, fig. 1385, and in the section, fig. 1388, with one doorway complete (opening to the intended road), in the south fence wall, 10 feet from the soutli- cast angle of the school building, of the same size as the one in the west garden wall in the west front. Provide and fix eight cast-iron air gratings, 9 inches by 6 inches, and sj)lay ofl' the brickwork for ditto, to give air to the foundation. Splay off all the reveals of the windows, &c., in the schoolrooms, and render ditto with cement. Splay off very neatly the angles of the piers to the openings to the yards for the privies, and to the opening for the stone staircase, &c. Render all the drains half round inside with cement, and also those inside the building half roimd on the top. Make good (join them) to the sewer in cement. Provide for three rods of reduced brickwork of the foregoing descrip- tion to be used in the drains, walls, &c., not set forth in the drawings ; and to provide for digging and carting the same, to be deducted if not required. Build a cesspool at the south end of the privies in cement, and render ditto in the inside and at the bottom with cement, size 2 feet 6 inches wide, and 7 feet long, and cover ditto with two 3-inch York stones, with two manholes in ditto, 15 inches in diameter (for cleaning out or examining the cesspools), and stones to fit the holes with strong iron rings let in for the convenience of raising them ; and fix two 3-inch York stones across the cesspool let 4 inches into the sides, to form traps. Bed all the timbers that require it with lime and hair. Pro- vide and fix proper iron chimney-bars to all the openings, 2 inches and a half by half an inch. Fix 3-inch York corbel-stones, to project 4 inches, for the ends, &c., of all the timbers, near the flues. Provide and fix twelve pieces of strong iron hoop worked into the fence walls at the angles, and turned up to keep on the brick on edge ; lay four courses of the brickwork round all the walls of the building, and to the cross walls and to all the piers, in good Parker's cement, and grouted with cement. Build counter-arches under all the openings of the doorways, &c., under the ground floor. 1584. Carpenter. The whole of the timber to be good sound Riga or Memel fir; the deals good, sound, well seasoned, Christiania deals, or of equal quality ; and the oak to be of English growth, free from knots and shakes. — Roof. Frame and fix a span roof, with four sets of principals, braces, struts, purlins, rafters, ridge-pieces, pole-plates, &c., all wrought imdersides, and principal timbers chamfered, of the several scantlings set forth on the plans, &c. Fix blocks at the back of all the purlins and pole-plates on the principals, and on the bond, &c., well spiked. Fix on each side of the principals two long double wrought-iron strap irons (binding plates of iron), and to go over the top of the timber, 2 inches and a half by five eighths of an inch, and four ditto shorter, and to run down each side of the upper principals, 2 inches and a half by five eigliths of an inch, secured with thirteen screw-bolts, washers, nuts, and screws, five eighths of an inch in diameter ; and two strap irons, with strong washers, nuts, and screws, to the ends of the principals, 2 inches and a half by three quarters of an inch. Fix eight J-incli bolts, nuts, screws, &c., to the wall-plates at the angles, and four wrought-iron diagonal and dragon ties (straps to tie together the wall-plates at the external angles of the building) to the upper wall-plates, 3 inches by five eighths of an inch, turned down at both ends. Fix four angle ties to the pole-plate, 2 feet long each way, 1 inch and a half by half an inch. Fix eight bearing irons to the ends of the purlins, and four ditto to the ends of the pole-plates, 3 feet G inches long, inch by inch, turned up and down, to carry the rafters of the pediment. Fix a rounded roll for the lead on the ridge-piece, with strong irons every 4 feet. Provide and fix four long raking temporary braces from the wall-plates under the roof to the girders, bolted together where they pass. Cover the roof with J-inch yellow boarding for slates, edges shot (planed straight), and I'ough- planed, with tiltcrs (tilting fillets). Lay on small joists, 4 inches by 2 inches, to the pediments ; inch yellow deal for lead, with proper fillets, firrings (pieces of wood fixed on the joists under the boarding, thicker at one end than at the other, to give a current to the water), and rolls (pieces of wood rounded, to dress the edges of the lead over). Fix inch wrought and rabbeted fascia, 6 inches wide; and fix 1 inch and a half wrought and weathered fillet scribed (to scribe is to cut the edge of a board or fillet, so as to make it fit and touch every point of an irregular surface,) under the eaves of slates all round, and up the pediments ; and to fix all round under the soffit a square fillet, 2 inches square. Frame and fix small ceiling joists, 3 inches and a half by 2 inches.