506 Construction of Labourers Cottages. 



spread hot over the horizontal surface of all the walls, and dry sand scattered 

 over the same at the ground-level to prevent the damp rising. 



The walls to be built as shown on drawing, using sound, hard, well-burnt, 

 red bricks, witli grey stocks for all angles, labels, and sills ; splay bricks to be 

 used for the plinth. 



Discharging arches to be turned over all the doors and windows on the 

 ground-floor. 



The arches of the living-room and scullery fireplaces to be turned upon iron 

 chimney-bars. 



The smoke-flues to be carried up as shown on plan, 9 in. square, ^iroperly 

 cored and pargetted with cowdung mortar. 



A 4 in. socket-pipe for the supply of air to the grates to be laid from a 

 grating in front of the cottage. 



Form all the necessary flues for the ventilating apparatus connected with 

 Pearce's fiire-lump cottage grate. 



A rubbed hearthstone to be laid to the fireplace of the living-room, and a 

 brick hearth to that of the scullery, with proper back hearths, the same to be 

 1 ft. longer than their respective openings. 



The living-room, scullery, and bedroom gi-ates to be set with good soft fire- 

 bricks ; the brickwork of copper to be built with rounded bricks, and cased 

 with fire-bricks where exposed to the fire. 



The walls inside the scullery and pantry to be neatly pointed and stained a 

 light stone-colour. Wood-bricks to be built into the walls as the works proceed, 

 for the purpose of fixing the window-frames and door-jambs. 



4^ in. dwarf walls, as shown on section, to be carried up to take joists of 

 ground-flour, the same to be not more than 4 ft. from centre to centre. 



A tooled flagstone, with a plain wrought-iron scraper fixed therein, to be 

 laid in front of each porch door. 



A 5 in. dished sink-stone, 2 ft. by 1 ft. 6 in., to be fixed on brick piers 

 in scullery, and the lead pipes and air-trap, as hereafter described, let into 

 the same. 



A similar stone, with a plain wrought-iron grating let into the same, to be 

 fixed in the front of the cottage, over the temiination of the air-pipes. 



Each of the windows to have a sill of Bath, or other stone, as the case may 

 be, 9 in, wide and 3 in. thick, wrought with fair edges and ends throated and 

 laid sloping. 



Slate chimney-pieces, with jambs 6 in. wide, and shelves to be fixed to fire- 

 places. The outer doors to have a 3 in. tooled flagstone sill 15 in. wide, 

 mortised to receive door-frames. 



Turn trimmer-arches, and provide and fix tooled stone hearths to the bed-- 

 room fireplaces. 



The whole of the brickwork is to be done in manner of English bond, and 

 is to be completely laid in, and to be entirely flushed up at every course with 

 naortar ; and the whole of the foundation-work is to be grouted with liquid 

 mortar at every course. No four courses of the work are to rise more tlian 

 1 in. besides the height of the bricks, and there is to be no difference between 

 the soundness and goodness of the outside work and of the inside w^ork, no 

 variation being allowed therein, except that the work intended to be plastered 

 is to have the joints thereof left rough for the adherence of the plastering. 



Tiler. — 'The roof to be covered with plain and ornamental rounded tiles, 

 three rows of plain, and then two rows of rounded tiles, to be fixed alternately 

 on laths 1 in. by f in., with jiroper valley tiles and ornamental ridge or crease 

 tiles ; the gables to be finished with proper gable tiles and pointed with dark- 

 tinted mortar. The outbuildings to be covered with Roman tiles. 



Carpenter and Joiner.- — The timbers used to be free from sapwood, shakes, 

 large or dead knots, or other defects, and to be perfectly well seasoned. 



The roof to be constructed with two pair of principals, with timbers of the 

 following scantlings, viz. : — 



