284 THE BOOK OF THE LANDED ESTATE. 



All mantels, jambs, and shelves of chimney-pieces to be of good clean 

 hard stone built into the walls, and each fireplace to have a rubbed stone 

 hearth, to project six inches on each side of the jamb, and to be not less 

 than two feet broad. 



All chimney-flues to be one foot four inches in diameter, and built 

 round, carefully pointed with mortar. 



The kitchen, scullery, pantry, passages, outhouses, and yard to be 

 floored with good stone flags not less than two and a half inches thick, 

 squared, and laid linn on mortar. 

 Fit up a sink in scullery. 



The quoins of corners of building to be of dressed stone, header and 

 stretcher alternately. 



Perform all mason jobbings that may be required, such as holes for 

 pipes, &c. 



Joiner-Work. Provide all' inside lintels for doors and windows, and 

 bonds for walls. The lintels to have not less than eight inches of wall- 

 hold on the ends. The bond timber to be four inches by two inches. 



The roofs to be made as shown on plans. To have the necessary 

 purlins, straining-pieces, spars, wall-plates, ridge-pieces, ceiling-joists, 

 and laths for slates, according to the sizes as shown on the plans and 

 sections. 



The sitting-room and chamber floors to be made with joists nine inches 

 by two and a half inches, and laid with inch flooring, and properly fitted 

 to hearths, firmly tongued and fitted together. Wood bricks to \>e pro- 

 vided where wanted. 



One-inch beading to be provided for all angles. To fix skirtings, eight 

 inches by one inch, and all window finishings. 



Provide all windows of deal-cased frames and sills, sashes one and a 

 half inches thick, and double hung with box-pulleys, line, and weights. 



Outside-door frames to be four inches by tVo and a half inches, and 

 inside doors to have two-inch casings, and as broad as the walls and 

 plaster. 



The doors to be panelled outside and flush inside. Frames to be two 

 and a half inches thick. Outside building doors. 



Inside-door frames to be one and a half inch thick, and panelled. 

 All presses and cupboards to be filled in with inch shelving, and 

 the kitchen to be fitted up with thirty lineal feet of belting for 

 utensils. 



The stairs to be made of one-inch deal. All the outside timbers to be 

 of the best red pine, and the inside woodwork to be of the best white 

 pine ; all to be properly seasoned before being used, free from sap-wood, 

 knots, and shakes. 



