SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE ERECTION OF A FORESTER’S COTTAGE. 365 
not more than 5 feet apart going two-thirds through the wall, and 
built from outside and inside alternately. Dwarf walls must be 
built under all wood and brick partitions and sleeper joists on 
ground floor. The walls to be hand-packed and hearted with stone 
and lime, sneck-harled inside, and clean pointed and cut off at 
every levelling outside. Inbonds, rybats, and scuntions to cross 
the wall, and to be 8 inches thick, and outbonds to be 21 inches 
long. The partition between the back wing and parts of sitting- 
room and parlour to be of bricks, built with a good firm bond. 
Bond-wood, which shall be provided by the carpenter, and shall 
be built by the mason into all walls, except coal place, in a hori- 
zontal position at distances 20 inches from centre to centre. 
Chimney vents to be lined with fire-clay vent linings—those for 
rooms and bedrooms to be circular 9 inches diameter, the kitchen 
vent to be oval 11 inches by 13 inches, and all to have fireclay 
oncomes. The vent linings to be taken 6 inches through the 
chimney cope, and finished with a roll. Chimney cope to be in 
pieces to breadth the top, and batted together with iron bats run 
with lead. Four openings, 4 inches square, to be formed in the 
walls to admit air to the sleeper joists. These openings to be 
furnished outside with cast-iron gratings, and securely batted into 
the stones with lead. 
The floors of kitchen, pantry, coal place, and passage leading 
from back entrance door to same, shall be brought up to within 
3 inches of door soles, with broken stones well packed, at least 
6 inches in depth ; above this 2 inches of concrete will be laid in 
the proportion of one part cement to five parts sharp sand and 
shingle, well mixed together, and to be finished to the level of door 
soles with 1 inch concrete in the proportion of one part cement to 
one part sand, properly smoothed over and hand floated. 
Dressed Work.—The rybats, corners, spurstones, skew-tabling, 
chimney heads, corners and coping mullions, soles, lintels, jambs and 
lintels of fireplaces, arch stones and finial of porch, shall be chisel 
droved, and scuntions inside to be well squared ; upstarts of roof 
windows, door soles and steps, and hearthstones shall be scabbled. 
Hearths.—The hearths on ground floor to be scabbled freestone, 
3 inches thick, laid on a foundation of solid masonry, and hearths 
of upper floor to be of the same material and thickness, but to be 
bedded in concrete formed of one part cement to three parts sand, 
resting on strong deals laid by the carpenter—these hearthstones to 
have 4 inches hold of wall. 
