frame

inch butts

tenoned into stone steps; each to have two
lock, Norfolk thumb-latch, and two

inch

and strong
barrel bolts. Fix an iron spring to each door to prevent it from slamming.
Internal Doors.-The internal doors to be inch four-paned square, with
inch butts, stout Norfolk thumb-latches
rod bolts, and strong
door springs, with fir wrought framed and chamfered door cases; those on
stone floors or thresholds to be tenoned into same.

Head-casing to Feet of Door-cases.-Completely wrap round and separate from the stone the feet of all door cases tenoned into stone with a piece of milled lead.

All the faces of the joiner's work to be wrought.

MASON.

Stone. All the stone used in the mason's work to be

of the

best quality, free from shakes, flaws, rents, or other defects, and laid so as

to be compressed according to its natural bed.

Foundations of .*-Bed for the foundations of

walls a com

laid at the depth of

below

Foundations of

.t-Bed for the foundations of

String Courses.-Put to

nches, moulded, mitred, and run with lead at all the joints therein.
Water Table to Chimneys.-Put at the foot of each stack of chimneys
a water table of
stone, wrought, weathered, and

throated.

Window Sills.-Put to the windows of

sills of

inch

inches wide, laid sloping, wrought fairly in front, and with tooled

soffit ends and level tops beneath the sash sills.

Landing to Doorways.-Put to

and steps of

stone back-jointed and fixed complete. Sills to External Doors.-Put to wide, and 18 inches wider than the openings. Slabs and Hearths.-Put inch rubbed

places.

Chimney Jambs.-Neatly point the jambs of chimneys in cement as far as the top of the arch.

Provide here for all other Carpenter's and Joiners' works, such as to:Stairs, with ballusters, hand-rails, &c., Closets and shelves, Skirting, Window shutters, &c. Skylights and borrowed lights, Raising of floor in steps for classdecks and

galleries, &c.

Chimney-Pieces.-Put to the fire-places of chimney-pieces with jambs

wide.

wide, shelves

wide, and mantles

Cramps. Labour.-Provide and fix, and run with lead, copper cramps and plugs wherever requisite. No cramps of iron are to be used. Run the joints with lead. Cut all requisite rebates, grooves, chases, holes, backjoints, fair edges, and perform the other labour usual or necessary to mason's work.

Leave the whole work perfect at completion, previous to which all the mason's work is to be well cleaned off.

SLATER.

Slates.-Slate the whole of the

roofs with

slates, laid

Then ridges are provided for as plumber's work; but may be formed of "Imperial sawn slate 5 in. wide, laid and pointed with slate cement, and screwed to the ridge board," or they may be formed of ridge tiles by the Bricklayer.

and cut close and overlapping

inches, nailed with copper nails, two to each slate; point the under sides with lince and hair, and lay the eaves double.

PLASTERER.

Ceilings.-Lath with double laths, plaster, float, set, and whiten ceilings of

of

Ceilings.-Lath with double laths, plaster, set, and whiten ceilings

Timbers of Roof-Size white timbers of roof or ceilings where seen.
Walls.-Properly stop and colour the walls of

colour.

of a

of

Walls, Brick-nogging, &c.-Render, set, and colour the brick-work

Quarter Partitions.-Lath, plaster, set, and colour

Labour.-Execute all requisite beads, quirks, and arrises.
Areas.-Lime-white

Dressings.*-Execute the dressings to

the

cement.

PAINTER.

and

Iron-work.-Paint times with the best oil and colour the whole of the iron-work, the first two coats of colour being red-lead paint, and the last coat being colour.

Woodwork.-Properly prepare, knot, and stop the whole of the wood-work usually painted, and paint times with the best oil, and colour all those parts thereof which are not described to be otherwise painted or finished in other clauses of this specification..

Doors. Grain extra in imitation of oak, and varnish twice with best copal varnish the

GLAZIER.

Glass Glaze all the windows and lights with good second Newcastle crown glass.

In Wood.-Properly bed, brad, and back-putty to all the sashes in wood.

In Lead.-Glaze the windows of

with small squares

set in strong church window lead, and secured to the saddle bars by strong copper bands.

Clean and leave perfect the whole of the glazing at the completion of the works.

Provide for extra painting to timbers of roof where seen, Closet fronts

and doors, sashes of

windows, &c.

PLUMBER.

Lay the gutters with 7 lbs. milled lead, turning up 9 inches against the wall and 12 inches up the roofs, with all requisite rolls and drips; no part of the gutters to be less than 12 inches wide, and the fall not to be less than 1 inch in 10 feet. Provide proper lead shoots from the gutters to the rain-pipe beads. The flashings of the chimney shafts to be of 5 lbs. milled lead and inches wide.

*Cutting bricks or stone should be substituted for cement finishings, if practicable.

Provide for glazing of skylights, fanlights, borrowed lights, sash doors, &c.

Cover the hips and ridges with 4lb. milled lead, 16 inches wide, properly dressed and secured.

SMITH.

Enumerate straps, bolts &c. to tim

bers of

trusses.

Iron Guttering.-Provide and fix

inch cast-iron semi-circular guttering and brackets to the eaves throughout, and inch diameter down pipes, with beads and shoes, delivering into the drain.

Iron-work to Roofs.-Provide and fix all the necessary iron-work for the roofs.

Chimney Bars.-Provide and fix No.

chimney bars

inch X

inch

caulked at both ends, and bent to the figure of an arch, if required by the design.

Cast-iron Gratings.*-Provide No.

cast-iron gratings for ventilation

in external walls inches X inches. No. with valves to open and shut in floors, inches x inches. No.

with valves to be opened and inches.

windows wrought

shut by strings and pulleys in ceilings. inches X
Saddle-bars to Windows.--Provide and fix to
iron saddle bars inch square, not more than 1 foot 8 inches apart, and
tailing into walls 4 inches.

*These gratings are for ventilation. Each wall-grating is to be set in the walls between the feet of two joists. The space between these joists will convey the fresh air to the floor-grating, which is to be let into some convenient part of the floor, between the upper surfaces of these same two joists. The ceiling-grating must also communicate with the external air, as by air flues.

FINIS.

LONDON:

Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES and Sons, Stamford Street,

For Her Majesty's Stationery Office.