428 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. 7 inches high, backed up, and set in Roman cement, in the kitchen, dairy, pantry, and store room. The mason to find all materials, carriage, and workmanship required for the completion of his work in tlie best and most workmanlike manner ; and to fix the whole complete, subject to the conditions in the general particular at the end hereof. [The mason contracting for this, affixes his signature to the same form as before.] The terrace shown in the drawings (see the figures in p. 419 and p. 420) is not de- scribed in this particular, nor included in the estimate ; as the expense depends upon whether the free sandstone, of which it should be built, can be obtained with facility or not. 852. Carpenter's and Jomers Work. The whole of the materials to be provided and sawed out square free from wane, of the several scantlings and thicknesses herein sjie- cified ; to be carted to the spot by the contractor, and to consist of the best yellow Dantzic or Memcl fir, or English oak, free from sap, shakes, or large and loose knots. The whole of the carpentry is to be framed in a workmanlike manner, according to the drawings ; the carpenter finding labour, nails, and tools, and all kinds of ironwork required for the purpose ; the whole to be done subject to the i)rovisions of the general pai-ticular at the end hereof. The bond is to pass through the openings, and not to be cut out till the work has settled. To put a chain plate of oak, 6 inches by 4 inches and a half, round the whole of the building, and the middle wall in the centre of the same, at the height shown in the plan ; the whole to be properly halved, and bolted at the laps, and dovetailed at the angles. To put three tiers of bond in the ground floor story, and three tiers in the chamber story, of oak, 3 inches l)y 2 inches and a half; and an oak wall plate under each floor, 4 inches and a half by ?, inches, dovetailed at the angles, and halved and spiked at the laps. To put double oak lintels, 4 inches thick, to all the openings, of the width of the respective walls or reveals, to lie 9 inches on the wall at each end. Oak wooden bricks to be provided in the jambs, for fixing the several linings where required, not exceeding 2 feet apart. — Parlour. To put oak joists, 6 inches by .3 inches, 1 2 inches apart ; the trimmers and trimming joists to be 6 inches by 4 inclies. — Chamber Floor. To put fir joists throughout, 9 inches by 2 inches and a half, 1 2 inches apart. The trimmers and trimming joists to be 9 inches by 3 inches and a halfi with one row of 1 inch and a quarter, fir keys (or strutting pieces) in each of the large chambers. — Ceiling Floor throughout. The ceiling joists to be 4 inches and a half by 2 inches, 12 inches apart, with binding joists, 5 inches by 3 inches and a half, and angle beams fixed with iron screw pins to the tie beams, 5 inches by 3 inches and a half, trimmed to the chimneys, and for a trapdoor over the landing to the stairs. — Roofing. Gutter plate, 8 inches by 4 inches. Tie beams, each in one length, joggled to the plates, 7 inches by 4 inches ; king posts, 9 inches by 3 inches, with three quarters of an inch iron screw pins 2 feet long, with nuts 3 inches long, mortised through the king posts. Struts, 4 inches by 3 inches ; framed principal rafters, 6 inches by 3 inches at bottom, and 4 inches by 3 inches at top ; purlins notched on the back of the principal rafters, 5 inches by 3 inches ; oak wall plate, 5 inches by 3 inches ; pole ]ilate, 4 inches and a half by 2 inches and a half; 1 inch and a half sleepers, 5 inches wide, laid on the back of the rafters to form valleys, 1 inch and a half ridges and hips, 6 inches wide ; common rafters, 4 inches by 3 inches, 13 inches apart ; inch yellow deal gutter board and l)carers, with feather-edged flanch board ; and the same to the chimneys. The middle gutter is to be 12 inches wide at the narrowest end, and to rise 2 inches in every 10 feet, with one 2-inch splayed drop ; proper valley boards are to be put for the lead valleys. The roof of the scalding-room, and of the porches and oven, are to have plates, rafters, ridges, valleys, and glitters, as before described, and the whole of the eaves are to have feather-edged oak eaves board, 4 inches and a half wide, and 1 inch and a quarter, and tliree quarters of an inch thick, with inch brackets to receive the eaves moulding and soflfit. — Partitions for Nogging Flat throughout. To put heads and sills, 4 inches and a quarter by 3 inches ; and common quarters, 4 inches and a quarter by 2 inches and a half, 18 inches apart ; door posts, prmcipal quarters, and braces, 4 inches and a quarter by 3 inches ; and nogging pieces, 4 inches and a quarter by 2 inches. All the heads of partitions to be dovetailed into the plates. All the external walls are to be battened inside with inch oak, 2 inches and a half wide and 12 inches apart. To make a proper barrel curb, for the well-diggers, and such centering as may be wanted for the archers and trimmers. 853. Joiner's Work. To be done according to the several drawings of details. All the stuff' to be of the best well-seasoned (kept till so dry as to be in no danger of shrinking when used) yellow deal, listed, free from sap and shakes, and the whole to be neatly wrought and finished off in a workmanlike manner. — Floors. To lay inch straight joint floors, with proper borders to slabs in the parlour, passage, and bed-rooms. — Doors. To put inch and three quarters four-jianel both sides square doors to all the rooms and closets, and to the head of the cellar stairs, hung with 3 inches and a half butt hinges, and 6 inches iron rim brass knob locks, with 1 inch and a half single-rebated
