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 VILLAS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 875 all angles. — Attic Floor. The doors to be of 1^-ineh deal, four-panel and square ; hung with 2|-inch butts to l|-inch rabbeted linings, and rounded, and a spring latch with a bolt to each. The windows to have U-inch moulded sashes and frames as before, single hung, &c., complete; to have J-inch linings, with inch window-board and mouldings round. A 5i-inch by 1-inch torus plinth, plugged, to be fixed round each room, land- ing, &c., on t"his story. The floors to be of inch deal, laid folding as below. — The staircase is to be built on three deal carriages, geometrically hung on three bearers, and fastened at the bottom to an oak sill. The carriages to be 4 inches by 2^ inches, laid flatwise ; and the bearers and sills to be of old oak, 6 inches by 4 inches. The treads to be of 1^-inch deal, the riser of inch deal, and boxed to string, with moulded and returned nosings and cut brackets. The strings to be moulded to correspond with the skirting in the hall, in the ground plan. The bottom step to be curtail (the bottoiri step to be .onger than the others, and made to curl round in the same manner and form, and to the same extent, as the scroll of the handrail). The handrail to be of the best Spanish ma- hogany, 2^ inches by 2^ inches, moulded and sunk, and French polished, with proper ramps, scrolls, twists, &c., to sweep of stairs. The fascia round the landing, and string to the stairs, to be of inch deal, double sunk and beaded to receive the plaster ceiling. The balusters to be of inch deal, and in every third step a wrought-iron one to be fixed ; and on the curtail step is to be fixed a turned iron newel. To provide the necessary screws for the rail. The upper staircase to be of inch deal treads and risers on two carriages, with bearers and brackets. Rail skirting, &c., as before. 1806. Slater and Plasterer. To cover the whole of the building with the best imperial slates, nailed in two places with copper nails, on 2-inch by f -inch deal sawn laths ; the whole to be well torched. The walls and arches of the two kitchens, the passage, the china-closet, the watei'-closet, to be rendered and set : those of the hall staircase, and landing above, and the two rooms on the ground floor, to be finished, troweled with stucco (three coats). Those of the chamber and water-closet to have three coats of bastard stucco, as well as all partitions. The walls of the attic story to be rendered and set ; the ceilings to the ground floor to be L. P. F. (lath, plaster, and float), and set white ; also the chamber story. Those of the attic story to be two coats on reeds, and three times white. The contractor to include the sum of £ 30 in his estimate for inside plaster cornices and flowers. — The outside to be stuccoed with quicklime and river sand, in the proportion as directed, except the cornices, frieze, columns, and all otiier projections, which are to be in cement, as particularly shown by drawings at large, &c. The chamber floors and partition to the water-closet to be well pugged (pugging is a composition of sand and plaster, or common mortar, laid between the joists or studs, to prevent the transmission of sounds, or dust rising from the joints of the floor). 1 807. Stone-Mason. To provide and fix Mansfield stone front steps, and all other stonework connected therewith, as particularly shown by drawings at large ; as well as a Mansfield stone terrace, 3 inches thick. Fix stone curbs to the area gratings of the windows, 6 inches by 4 inches and a half, well cramped and leaded together. Also a stone, 2 feet square, over the rain-water cistern, as well as one to an opening to the coal- place. A stone sink with plug-hole, 4 feet by 2 feet 4 inches. To cover the water- closet of the basement with stone as terrace. To provide and fix Attleborough stone sills to all the windows, 10 inches by 6 inches and a half, properly weathered and throated : to provide a proper Mansfield stone for the pump. To lay the hall floor with rubbed Hopton stone in diagonal quarries. To lay Hopton stone hearths, and Yorkshire back hearths to the two sitting-rooms, 4 feet by 1 foot 10 inches ; to lay rubbed York stone hearths (and back hearths) in each fireplace of the bed-rooms, 3 feet 8 inches by 1 foot 8 inches. The staircase to the basement story from the hall, as well as the steps into the area, and from the terrace into the garden, to be of solid Mansfield stone ; to provide and fix stone architrave over the columns and through the walls (as shown by the plans). 1 808. Plumber and Glazier. To lay all the lead gutters with 7-pound cast sheet- lead, with 2-inch drips, to extend, in all places, 9 inches up the roof and 4 inches up the wall ; with a lead flashing of 5 pounds to the foot, at least 5 inches deep. All the hips, valleys, and ridges to be laid with 5-pound lead ; the top of the conservatories, and under the portico, with 6-pound lead. To line the cistern of the water-closet with 7-pound lead. To fix a pump with S^-inch brass forcing apparatus, with every thing necessary for the same, oak standards, stage, stays, cheeks, &c., complete ; and 2^-inch suction pipe, stop, bib, cock, and 2-inch best screw bottom. To branch a 2-inch rising main into the cistern of the water-closet ; also a branch of H-inch pipe from this main, with best brass cocks, &c., for the copper in the back kitchen. To put a half-inch warning-pipe from the cistern to a convenient place near the pump ; and another H-inch pipe, with brass cock, &c., to be laid into the conservatory, where directed. To provide and fix in the back kitchen a lead rain-water pump, with 2-inch suction