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Oil Agricultural Buildings. 



those of farm-house^ base course, cornices, upstarts^, porch, 

 chimney-stalks, cart-shed, and gate-pillars, base and cope of 

 engine-house stalk, shall be completely finished with the best 

 droved hewn work ; the rybats to be built regularly out, and in- 

 band, having 5-inch margins, and l«inch splays of droved work ; 

 the heads and tails to be neatly pick-dressed ; behind margins to 

 correspond with the ruble work : the external corners shall be 

 similar, having 2h-\nc\\ droved margins, and similar sized droved 

 splays; the pillars in every situation, Avhether of cart- shed or 

 courts, shall be executed with single stones, built in regular 

 courses, neatly scabbled and dressed on the face, and shall, to- 

 gether with the arches of the former, have 1 J -inch splays all 

 round the exterior angles of the same ; the pillars of gateways to 

 cattle-courts, &c., shall be finished with moulded copings, as 

 shown on the elevations. 



Recesses are to be formed in the walls for the sliding doors to 

 protect them from the weather. 



The cattle-court, and other walls throughout the building, shall 

 be coped with hammer-dressed stone, neatly rounded and pro- 

 jecting one inch on each sid-e over the walls. 



The traviss post-stones, with those in cart-shed, will be 

 18 inches square, and 9 inches thick, with holes cut in the upper 

 bed of the same, for the reception of the posts, and all to be 

 neatly droved. 



The group and staw stones in byres will be neatly hammer- 

 dressed, and of the proper sizes ; and the bottoms of the same 

 shall be laid with flag-stones to the proper declivities. 



The floors of stables, byres, turnip-shed, bull-shed, tool and 

 gig houses, hay-house sheds for loose boxes and passages leading 

 to the same, will all be causewayed with straight-faced stones of 

 the proper sizes, set on soft sand, well packed together, and solidly 

 rammed down, and all to have the proper declivities and water- 

 channels to suit the various drains. The barn-floor will be 

 made up 9 inches with broken metal and chips, and blinded with 

 sand. This floor, together with those of corn-room, cottar- 

 houses, privy, workshop, kitchen, and offices of farm-house, shall 

 be laid with smooth-faced and droved pavement, of the usual sizes ; 

 all to be bedded and jointed with fine lime mortar or sand, as the 

 case may be. 



The floor of cart-shed, straw-barn, and other houses not already 

 specified, shall be made up with clay, solidly rammed together ; 

 finished on the top with gravel, neatly smoothed on the surface, 

 and hard rubbed in. 



The travisses in byres will be executed with flag-stones of the 

 requisite sizes, and all the ports and upstarts jibbled checked. 



The whole of the walls in every situation throughout the build- 



