Page:An Encyclopædia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture.djvu/908

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884 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. Fig. 1557 shows the section of the architraves of the doors and windows of the two principal floors. Fig. 1558 shows the mouldings round the panels of the principal doors. Fig. 1559 shows the moulding on the ceiling of the drawingroom cornice. Fig. 1560 shows the skirting of the parlour. Fig. 1561 shows the skirting of the dining-room. Fig. 1562 shows the moulding on the wall under the coving of the drawingroom cornice. Fig. 1563 shows the dining-room cornice, and fig. 1564 shows the parlour cornice. All these figures are to the same scale, of two inches and three quarters to a foot. None of the cornices or mouldings are enriched. 1817. Estimate. The following is the actual cost of this building: — Mason's work, £495; carpenter's work, jgSSO; plumber, £60; slater, £'30; plasterer, £50; marble for chimney-pieces, &c. £45 : in all, jglOOO. This sum does not include the offices nor the turrets. 1818. Remarks. We are indebted for this Design to William Reid, Esq., Architect, Tradcstown, Glasgow, by wliom it was planned and executed for David Scales Cleland, Esq., in 1831. It is rendered particularly valuable by the sections of the mouldings, and by the other details of construction.