A COTTAGE.

SPECIFICATION TO DESIGN No. 1.

Plates 1, 2, 3, and 4.

DIGGER.

Excavate the trenches for all the foundation Walls , and fill up the spaces on bothsides of the Walls , when built, with earth, to the level of the surface of the intended lineof the "round, and ram the earth quite hard. Excavate and fill up, in like manner, toall the Walls required for Drains, Vaults, Cess Pools, Partitions, Dwarf Walls, or otherBrick work required by the Plans.

BRICKLAYER AND MASON.

The Walls to be erected to the depth, height, and thickness described by the severalPlans, “ Elevations and Sections,” to be constructed of the best Materials, as hereafter setforth, the whole to be well Hushed with Mortar, of the best and most approved compoundof sharp Sand and well-burnt Lime, and grouted every third course if required ; or, asmay be proper to be adopted for the Materials proposed to he used.

The Plinths and Quoins of the Walls above the ground line, and 6 inches below, tobe formed according to the Elevations, with Stone neatly tooled, (or scappelled, orhammer-dressed, as may he preferred,) and placed in alternate courses, projecting each wayas described in the Elevations, and well bonded to the Brick work, and, where required,to pass some of the Stones through the Walls to bond the angles of the Walls together.

The Labels and Reveals to the Doors and Windows to be of Stone, (neatly tooled, orscappelled, or hammer-dressed, as may be required,) to he completed as set forth in thedetailed working drawings, which describe minutely the form and particular mode offinishing.

The Octangular Columns supporting the upper Quoins or Angles of the Building tohe of Stone. The Dressings, Steps, Plinths, and other parts, as set forth in the workingdrawings, to be, as therein shown, of Stone, and finished accordingly, to correspond tothe general design.

All the exterior Walls , viz. the spaces between the Windows and Doors , or the frontssurrounding the Doors and Windows , between the Plinths and the Plate of the Roof, orString Course, to be completed in common Brick work, neatly set and pointed for colour-ing, or with common Wall Stone in courses, if the Country afford Stone at a cheaperrate than Brick work.

The interior parts of the external Walls , and also the interior Walls which exceed9 inches in thickness, are to be of sound well-constructed Brick work, or may be StoneWalls, set in courses in good Mortar (provided the Country in which the Building is to

Walls .

Mortar.

Plinths andQuoins.

BondStones.

Labels andReveals.

Columns tosupportAngles ofBuilding.Steps andPlinths.

Walls andFacing ofditto.