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 7-56 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. posts, 8 inches by 3 inches and a half; purlins, 4 inches by 4 inches ; pole-plates, 5 inclies by 3 inches ; ridges, 9 inches by 1 inch and a half, rounded for the lead ; vallev- pieces, 1 1 inches by 2 inches. — Partitions. Head and sill pieces, 4 inches by 3 inches ; posts, 4 inches by 3 inches ; quarters and braces, 4 inches by 2 inches and a half; wall- plates or lintels over the windows, 9 inches by 4 inches ; wall-plates in the return-walls, 4 inches by 4 inches ; chain-bond under the windows, 5 inches by 5 inches ; common bond, 4 inches by 2 inches and a half; ceiling joists, 3 inches and a half by 2 inches ; sleepers and floor-joists for sitting-room, &c., 6 inches by 2 inches; floor-joists for one pair, 8 inches by 2 inches, and all to be strutted ; plates under the flooring joists, 4 inches by 4 inches ; quartering for ashlering, 3 inches by 2 inches and a quarter ; posts to ditto, 3 inches by 3 inches. The rafters to be planed on the under side, and all the other timbers of the roof on three sides. 1598. Joiner. Floors. Lay inch deal straight joint yellow deal floor, in the parlour and bed-rooms of the dwelling-house, with borders to slabs. Lay l^-inch yellow batten straight joint floors in both schoolrooms, on oak joists and sleepers, 4 inches by 3 inches ; the sleepers, 6 feet 6 inches apart, laid on brick piers. Fix |-incli deal skirting, 6 inches and a half wide, round the dwelling-rooms and closets. — Windows. Prepare and fix thirteen solid proper frames of sound yellow fir ; the sides and heads, 4 inches and a half by 3 inches and a half, chamfered on one edge, and rabbeted; the muntins to be 4 inches and a half by 2 inches and a half, chamfered on two edges, and double-rabbeted ; the sills to be of oak, splayed and sunk, 5 inches by 3 inches and a half. Hang 2-inch deal ovolo bar sashes, 4 feet 6 inches by 1 foot 6 inches each, in five squares high, and two squares wide, with 3-inch butt hinges at bottom ; with a chain, staple, and hook, to each centre sash, 12 inches long, so as to let them fall inwards to ventilate the room, and a 4-inch bolt to each. The windows to be glazed with second crown glass. The sashes to the dwelling-rooms to be hung on the sides. Fix 1-inch deal tongued and splayed and staff-beaded linings to three windows, and 1^-inch rounded window-boards, 6 inches wide. Fix in each of the square openings in the gables, an inch deal board, chamfered at both ends, the size of the openings, with iron pivots at each end, to work in the lintel and sill, and a 4-inch bolt on each. — Doors. Hang l|^-inch deal four-panel square doors, one in the upper bed-room, and four in the lower rooms and larder, with 3-inch butt hinges, and a good 3-bolt and 6-inch knob lock on each. Fix l;|-inch single-rabbeted and rounded linings to the doorways, and 1-inch framed grounds, 3 inches wide, staff-beaded on edge round one side. Fix to the opening from the porch a fir proper doorcase, 4 inches by 4 inches, and an inch deal staff-beaded lining round inside. Hang in the ashlering of the bed-room, 3-inch deal two-panel square doors to the low closets at the eaves on each side of the room, 4 feet by 2 feet each, with 2^inch butt hinges, and turn buckle latch to each ; and fix l;|^-inch rabbeted and beaded linings for the doors. Fix l^^-inch square framed spandril and door under the staircase, and up to the ceiling, and on the one pair. To enclose a closet from the lower bed-room, and put on hinges, and turn buckle. Fix fir proper doorcases to the boys' school and the girls' school, 4 inches by 4 inches and half; and hang l:|-inch deal ploughed and tongued and ledged doors, with moulded fillets on the joints outside, with 24-inch fancy hinges, and a strong fancy iron latch of Chubb's patent (a latch invented by Mr. Chubb, of St. Paul's Churchyard, ■which cannot be picked), to answer the purpose of a lock. To fix a l^-inch deal framed and beaded closet front in the sitting-room, with square door, 2^inch butt hinges, and closet lock. To fix 3-inch deal shelves in ditto, 16 inches wide. — Privies. Fix H-inch oak seats, risers, and bearei's, and divisions, 2 feet 6 inches wide, and 6 feet 6 inches high each, all wrought, ploughed, tongued, and ledged. Fix two iron bars to support the brick- work over the opening of the cesspool, 7 feet 6 inches long, turned up and down at both ends, 3 inches deep, 1 inch thick, and 3 inches wide at the top. Fix 26 feet of oak cleft fence to enclose the yards of the privies, 6 feet 6 inches high, with three strong arris rails, cut out of stuff 4 inches by 4 inches, including two doors, each hung with 24-inch strong garnet hinges, and hung to fall to, and 6 feet oak posts, chamfered, 9 feet long, 6 inches by 6 inches, and spurs ; and fix oak arris capping, cut out of stuff, 3 inches by 3 inches. 1 599. Mason. Fix four plain solid Portland chimney-pieces, with chamfered edges ; 1^-inch Portland slabs, and Yorkshire stone hearths. Lay three solid Yorkshire stone steps to the porches. Lay Yorkshire stone paving, 2 inches and a half thick, in the porches, privies, and in the yards to ditto, and to the outer doors to the fuel places ; all the paving to be supported on bricks, so as to be hollow underneath. Fix Bath stone copings on the gables, moulded on the edges, 18 inches wide, and 4 inches thick, with copper cramps (iron is apt to stain the stone). Fix Bath stone plinths to both chimney- shafts, 2 feet high, grooved for lead flashings. Fix Bath stone moidded cornices, 9 indies wide, 3 inches thick, with a moudled front edge, and Bath stone ashlar (or blocking course) on ditto, 12 inches high to the two porches, and 9 inches high to the fuel places ; 5 inches