Labourers Cottages. 415 



Twenty yards of drain, formed of cylindrical pipes 4 inches 

 diameter^ with socket-joints, to be laid from the sink of each 

 cottage towards the outfall drain. Drains of similar pipes, 

 2 inches diameter, to be laid from the feet of the descending 

 pipes into the larger drains. 



The jambs and arches of the fire-places of the living-rooms 

 and sculleries to be built with pressed bricks, laid in fine mortar, 

 projecting three-quarters of an inch in front of the other walling, 

 so as to stop the plastering. The arches of these fire-places to 

 be turned upon iron chimney-bars. 



The flues to be well pargetted with mortar mixed with cow- 

 dung ; the gatherings to be made as nearly as possible over the 

 centres of the fire-places. The flues in the chimney-shaft above 

 the roof to be reduced to 9 inches square^ and the two upper 

 courses to be laid in cement mortar. 



Rubbed hearth-stones to be laid to the fire-places of the living 

 rooms and chambers ; brick hearths to be laid to the sculleries. 

 Mantels and jambs 5 inches wide to be fixed to the fire-places of 

 the bed-rooms. 



The contract to include the provision and setting of two 

 Nicholson's cottage grates with side ovens and boilers, two small 

 chamber grates and coves, and a small range with brick cheeks 

 and coves, and a fifteen-gallon metal boiler, with furnace-bars, 

 door, and frame, for the scullery, of the aggregate value of 8/. at 

 the first cost. 



The ground-floors of the cottages are to be paved with 6-inch 

 square paving-tiles bedded in mortar. The coal-houses and 

 privies, ash-pits and privy-vaults, to be paved with bricks laid flat 

 in mortar. The pigsties and courts to be paved with bricks laid 

 edgewise in mortar. A tooled flagstone 4 feet by 2 feet, with a 

 plain wrought-iron scraper fixed therein, to be laid in front of 

 each porch door. 



The windows to have rubbed, weathered, and throated stone 

 sills, 10 inches by 3 inches. The outer doors to have 3-inch 

 tooled flag sills 9 inches wide, morticed for door frames. 



A 5-inch dished sink-stone, 3 feet by 1 foot 9 inches, to be 

 fixed on brick piers in each of the sculleries, and the lead pipe 

 and air-trap hereafter described to be let into the same. 



The whole of the walls of the cottages and privies to be ren- 

 dered and set fair, and the ceilings of the living-rooms and bed- 

 rooms, the soffits of the stairs, and the external eaves and gables, 

 to be lathed, plastered, and set fair. The ceilings of the scul- 

 leries to be pane-drawn between the joists. 



The floors of the bed-rooms to be of grey floor-plaster upon 

 laths, and to be at least 2i inches thick. 



The roofs to be covered with Bangor Countess slates, nailed 



