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 87'2 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. rooms having glass doors at n, opening into the conservatories. Each house has a veranda on the south-west side, o ; and stairs in the area to the kitchen floor, p. The conservatories are proposed to bo heated from stoves, connected with the kitchen-ranges, by flues pass- ing along the haunches of the arches which form the kitchen ceiling ; which flues will at the s<ame time heat the hall and staircase. This Design, which has been contributed by Messrs. Parsons and Gill, Architects, Leicester, was accompanied by the following con- ditions and specifications : — Conditions and Specifications for huildintj a Double Villa near to the Town of Leicester. 1802. Conditions. The contractor to find all materials, and everything necessary to complete the building according to the plans, sections, elevation, and specification hereunto annexed ; and the various works to be done in the best and most workmanlike manner, and to the satisfaction of the Architect employed to superintend the same. If at any time there should be delivered on the premises any materials whatever, which, in the opinion of the Architect, may be of an unsound quality, or otherwise defective, the same to be immediately removed by the contractor ; and, in default thereof, or refusing so to do, the Architect to have the power of causing the same to be removed within twenty- four hours after a notice in writing to that eflfect, signed by the Architect, has been de- livered to him the said contractor, or his foreman, and the expense thereof to be deducted from any money that may be (or may become) due to him upon his contract ; and, in case any such imperfect materials shall have been used in the work, the same shall be taken down by the direction of the Architect, and the work perfectly restored, at the expense of the contractor, which expense shall likewise be deducted as aforesaid. If, by the direction of the Architect, any alterations are made in any part of the Design, the same shall not invalidate the contract ; but, whether such alteration be an addition to, or a deduction from, the work contracted for, the value thereof shall be ascertained in the usual way, and the amount be added to, or deducted from, the sum total, as the case may be. The contractor to be paid by instalments, in the following manner ; that is to say, when he shall have performed work to the amount of .^SOO, he shall be paid such sum, except £ per cent of the same, and so on in proportion throughout the progress of the building till its completion ; and upon its being so completed, half the said sum of £ pel- cent shall be paid to the contractor, and the other half shall remain in hand for six months afterwards, as a security against the failure of any part of the work. The whole to be completed by the day of, under a penalty of ^'10 per week, for every week that shall intervene between that period and that of its actual completion. The contractor will be required to enter into a bond (with two sureties, if required), for the due and proper fulfilment of these conditions, and the following specifications. 1 803. Specifications. — Digger and Bricklayer. To excavate for the basement story, cisterns, foundation, &c., as shown by the plans and sections, of a sufficient width and depth ; afterwards to fill in and well ram the same ; to level the ground as directed, and to cart away all spare earth and refuse that may remain on the completion of the works. To sink and steen a well, using the required quantity of oak curbing, with proper well bricks to the depth of 1 8 yards below the level of the basement floor, which is to be 3 feet six inches within when finished ; also to well puddle the same with good and well, tempered clay to the depth of 3 yards, and to cover the same with a rough slab, Swith- land quarry. To build all the walls of the respective heights and thicknesses shown by the plans, sections, and elevations, with good and well-burnt common bricks, laid in English bond, and left rough for stucco : those that are not described as to be stuccoed to be neatly pointed. Immediately above the ground line lay three courses deep in Roman cement, well flushed up between the joints (to prevent the moisture from rising into the walls above). The whole of the basement story to be arched over with 4i-inch brick- work, and the kitchens to have 9-inch brickwork, extending 4 feet each way from the abutment. ( fig. 1 542. ) To lay the floor of the best kitchen with quarries, bedded and jointed in beaten mortar ; also the passage under 1542 the hall floor, the back kitchen, the pantry, and the china-closets, %vith dressed bricks in beaten mortar, as before. The two cellars, shoe-place, coal-hole, and area, to be laid with common bricks bedded in mortar. To build, where directed, a rain-water cistern, 9 feet by 5 feet, and 5 feet deep, to the springing of the arch. When finished, the arch to be of ^-brick, leaving in the arch two openings ; one, 2 feet by 1 foot 6 inches, the other, 9 inches square for pump. The walls to be 1^ brick thick, and those with three floors to be laid close in beaten mortar ; the walls of the first two floors to be of the best hard-burnt and