ON GENTLEMEN’S ESTATES. 
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As a brick is only nine inches long, and four and a half broad, the transverse bricks, 
or headers, must be flush on the outside, which will leave an uneven surface on the 
inside ; but this is all the better, as supplying a means for the plaster to take good hold. 
The foundations must be solid, and a brick and a half in thickness ; and the earth 
must be well rammed round them. 
The bearing timbers may be of elm or larch, and the rafters of the principal roof 
should be four and a half by three-quarter inches. The roof is to be covered with 
terrometallic Italian tiles ; these are of an iron colour, which is much preferable to 
those of a glaring red. The chimney stack is to have lateral openings, as shown 
in the view, and to be covered with iron coloured tiles ; the shafts to be coated 
with cement. 
The windows are to have perpendicular wooden mullions or astragals, and to turn 
round on a pivot and socket in the centre at top and bottom. The porches and 
window dressings may, for the sake of cheapness be of wooden work, painted of a 
stone colour. All the internal finishing should be executed in the strongest and 
plainest manner; and all the external work ought to be painted four times in oil. 
The internal divisions may be of brick on edge, or of brick noggin flat ; but if the 
building be situated where wood is abundant, they may be of lath and quartering, 
as the roof is wholly supported by the external walls. 
The expense of this building, including the office, if the walls are of brick work, 
the roof covered with terrometallic tiles, and the joiner’s work finished in a strong, 
but plain manner, will be about^£408, or £102 for each house. If the external 
walls are built of quartering framed as if for internal divisions, wattled with small 
branches of trees between the quartering, and the spaces filled in with mud, the 
expense will be greatly lessened, especially where wood can be had cheap ; but, 
perhaps, brick (or stone if cheap) walls, will be found more economical in the 
long run. 
The situation most proper for a building, must depend upon many circumstances, 
but if there be an opportunity of choosing a situation as to effect — from its cha- 
racter as an Italian structure, it might be advantageously placed in rather a low 
than an elevated situation. But wherever the situation may be, the building must 
be so placed, that a line running north and south will be a diagonal of the parallelo- 
gramatical form of the ground plan and, above all, in a situation where there is 
abundance of good spring water. A dial may be very properly placed on the south- 
east side of the building, shown in the perspective view ; and the gardens to be 
well fenced in by a thorn hedge, as exhibited by the drawings. 
