"The rooms numbered 1. and 2. on the plan are to be floored with paving tile, well bedded in mortar. Those numbered 3. and 4. are to have joists of batten fir, sixteen inches from centre' to centre, seven inches deep, and two inches and a half thick, and to be covered with wrought-inch board of fir or poplar. All the ceilings to have joists not less than three inches by two inches, and the roof to have rafters of the same dimensions, with purloins four inches square under the whole of them. The ceiling, joists, and rafters to be sixteen inches from centre to centre. Hips and ridges to be one inch and a half by eight inches, and raised to receive the lead. The wall plates to be four inches and a half by two inches and a half.

"The roof to be covered with good slate, nailed on two-inch sawn lath, and to be rough-rendered inside. All the hips and ridges to be covered with lead, fifteen inches wide, and not less than five pounds to the foot, and valleys not less than six pounds to the foot.

"All ceilings to be plastered on heart lath, two coats, floated and set.

"Walls to have two coats, rendered and set. The under side of the portico and projection of the roof to be also ceiled and plastered, and faced with a three inch and a half fascia board.

"All ceilings and plastered walls to be whitewashed, to have six-inch skirting round all the rooms, of fir, one inch thick.

"Outer door frames to be of oak, four inches square. The front door to be two inches thick,

six-panelled, square, and rusticated. The back door to be of one inch and a half deal, ledged, ploughed, tongued, and beaded.

"Inner door frames to be of fir, not less than four inches by three inches. Inner doors of one and a half inch fir, six-panelled. Window frames to have oak sills, and the rest of the framing to be of fir, glazed with best second diamond fashion in lead, with quartered oak casements, and iron saddle bars.

"There is to be a five eighth of an inch beaded angle staff at every external angle of the plastering. "All timber work, except where otherwise expressed, to be of Baltic fir.

"The porch to be supported with oak or larch poles. All the timber work usually painted to be painted three times in oil. The inner doors and skirtings to be finished chocolate colour; the rest of the interior to be white; all the outside to be painted dark green.

"Grates must be fixed in the fireplaces, each of which must have stone hearths, jambs, and mantels.

"All doors and windows to have proper locks, hangings, and fastenings; and the whole house to be finished in a complete and workmanlike

manner.

"A privy must be built near the house, with proper seats, roof, door, &c. complete, to be placed in such situations as may be pointed out by the commissioners' engineer or his assistant."

Specification of a Toll-house, built near Coventry, on the New Road. (Plate V. fig. 1.)

"The precise situation to be marked out by the chief engineer of the parliamentary commissioners, or the resident engineer: it is to be constructed agreeably to the annexed plan and following particulars :

"The excavation of ground for the walls to be of sufficient depth to obtain a solid foundation; the whole of the walls to be formed at the same depth, and the earth to be firmly pinned up to them after they are built."

Brickwork.

"The exterior walls are to be two bricks in thickness at the foundation, and be continued at that thickness up to six inches above the outside ground line, where there must be an offset, on the inside, of two inches and a quarter: at six inches above the floor line, or twelve above the outside ground line, there must be another offset on the outside, so as to bring all the walls to be a brick and a half in thickness, which thickness is to be continued to the roof. At the height of nine feet above the floor line, and ten above the outside ground line, all the brickwork to be of sound stocks laid in well-wrought mortar, composed of one part of good lime and two of clean sharp sand; the two middle rooms to be laid with good paving bricks; the chimney-shaft above the

roof to be half a brick in thickness, finished with proper coping; all the flues to be pargetted smooth."

Carpenters' Work.

"For the roof, which is to rise a quarter of the span, all the rafters are to be four inches deep, two inches in thickness, and laid at the distance of sixteen inches from centre to centre; the hip, ridge, and gutter pieces to be six inches deep, and one inch and a half thick; the ceiling joists to be the same, laid at the same distance, and framed to the rafters.

"The two bedrooms to have flooring joists of the same dimensions and distance as the rafters, and laid with inch deals, folding-wrought, and nailed. The front and back door sills are to be of oak, nine inches by six inches, and three inches in the walls. Window sills to be of oak, nine inches by three inches, with a weathering of one inch.

"The front and back door frames to be of oak, four inches square, framed, rebated, and beaded.

"Interior door frames to be of fir, four inches by three inches, framed, rebated, and beaded. All window frames to be of fir, three inches square, with two mullions in each, three by two inches, rebated and moulded, for lead lights; all the rooms to have six-inch ovolo skirting, one inch thick, with proper grounds; all angles inside to have a three-quarter inch bead, with quirks wrought in plastering."

Slaters' Work.

"The roof to have sawn laths, two inches by half an inch, and to be covered with the best countess slates, laid in a proper manner, and fixed with clout nails. A two-inch beaded fascia to be run along the ends of the rafters, which is to be bracketed underneath. The projection to be fifteen inches; the slating to be pointed in the inside with plaster mortar; the wall top to be beamfilled."

Joiners' Work.

"The front door to be six-panelled, bead, flush, and square, two inches thick; the back door to be four-panelled, square, and rusticated, one inch and a half thick. The interior doors four-panelled, square, one inch and a half thick; all the woodwork (except where specified to be of oak) to be of sound Baltic fir. All framed and outside work to be of yellow fir, as well as flooring boards."

Plasterers' Work.

"All the walls inside to be rendered, floated, and set, also the outside of the blank windows. All ceilings to have two coats on sound heart laths, and be properly set. All the plastering to be afterwards whitewashed two coats."

Plumbers, Painters', and Glaziers' Work.

"All hips, ridges, and gutters of the roof to be covered with lead, fifteen inches in breadth, and