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feet by seven feet, and six feet to eaves. Base 

 of nine-inch brickwork on concrete foundation. 

 Floor of concrete rendered in cement. Door 

 sill of stone. Superstructure of four-inch deal 

 quartering, strongly framed, and uprights let 

 into oak sill, covered with sawn oak weather^ 

 boarding. Window grid of one-inch oak dia- 

 mond square rods. Arched stretcher of oak. 

 Roof of red porous tiles. (See Fig. 73.) 



6. Open summer house, octagon in plan. 

 Uprights of oak stems about nine-inch diameter. 

 Back and part sides filled in with oak weather- 

 boarding on deal framing. Plinth boards of 

 oak. Floor gravel. Roof framed of deal, 

 match-boarded and thatched. (See Fig. 74.) 



7. Mushroom open shelter. Centre column 

 a barked oak bole with stumps of branches 

 left as struts. Roof framed of deal, match- 

 boarded inside, and on outside covered with 

 oak shingles. Seats supported by legs of 

 barked oak. Unbarked larch may be used 

 instead of oak, to reduce cost. The roof 

 struts would have to be separate, as the larch 

 tree does not branch suitably. (See Fig. 75.) 



8. Circular summer house. Uprights of un- 

 barked red cedar. Walls of same, halved, with 



