COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 39 to give a slight inclination to the verge or border-slates, where they butt against brick-work, as at a, in fig. 55, in order that the water may be directed from the brick-work ; they are 56 57 17 likewise employed to steady and support the lower edges of slates finishing against vallies ; the usual size is three inches wide, three-eighths of an inch thick, and feather-edged) ; and one inch and a quarter feather-edged (thin edged) eaves' board, eight inches wide. Put one inch yellow deal gutters, and bearers (pieces of scantHng to support the gutters, fig. 56, h,) to the chimneys. The internal partitions to be made for nOgging flat (the same as in fig. 46, but with the bricks set on edge). Put heads, four inches by three inches, dovetailed, fig. 57, into the plates; sills of oak, four inches by two inches and a half; common quarters, fig. 58. c, four inches by two inches, and eighteen inches apart ; door-posts, d ; principal quarters (principal up- right pieces of timber in the partition, e), and braces (diagonal pieces of timber, /), four inches by three inches ; nogging pieces, g, four by two inches. 84. Specification of Joiner's Work. All the inside framing, and all the outside work, to be of sound, well- seasoned, dry, yellow deal. To put one inch and a 5S // quarter moulded fascia (fig. 59, h), with an inch thick gutter having a false bottom, i, to current the water (to slope the bottom, so as to make it run), put together with white lead, all round 60 61 ' 62 1 5 "^ k K
^ the eaves, with two three-quarters of an inch yellow deal water trunks, four inches and a half square (wooden pipes to conduct the water down, fig. 60, A-), with head, /, and shoes, fig. 61, to deliver the water to the ground. To lay in the bed-rooms one-inch folding floors (a particular mode of laying down the boards ; but when finished, the appearance presents nothing particular; fig. 62. See folding floors, in Glos- sarial Index), with border to the slab.— [In the specification of the gutter for carrying ofF the water from the roof, there is a deviation from the section, fig. 40, in p. 36, in which the gutter is formed in stone, being hollowed out of the wall- head phnths. The reason why this deviation has been made, is, that the specification was drawn up with the view of erecting the cottage in the neighbourhood of London, where a stone gutter would have added greatly to its expense. The wooden gutter shown in the section, fig. 63, will produce the same effect, and correspond with tlie specification.] — Doors. To put proper door-cases (door-cases are called proper, when wrought, i. e. planed, framed, rebated, and beaded,) of fir (fir is generally applied by builders
