<div1 type="SM_PSpage" id="LMSMPS50733PS507330001"> <xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="LMSMPS507330001"></xptr>
<p n="1"> (I)<lb></lb>
A GENERAL<lb></lb>
DESCRIPTION<lb></lb>
OF THE<lb></lb>
Principal Materials and Work<lb></lb>
To be used and performed in the BUILDING of the<lb></lb>
NEW SESSION HOUSE,<lb></lb>
FOR THE<lb></lb>
COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX.</p>
<p n="2">BRICKLAYER.<lb></lb>
All the Bricks to be found, hand, well-burnt Grey Stock Bricks;<lb></lb>
to be laid and flushed in the Foundation Walls in Mortar made<lb></lb>
of good strong Quick Stone Lime, mixed with clean washed River<lb></lb>
Sand, well beat and tempered; and in the order Parts of the Building<lb></lb>
to be laid and flushed in good strong Quick Chalk Lime, mixed, beat,<lb></lb>
and tempered as aforesaid: Every four Course of such Brick-Work<lb></lb>
not to rise more than eleven Inches and a Quarter; and every such<lb></lb>
four Course to be grouted. All the Brick-Work externally to be<lb></lb>
faced with the brightest coloured Grey Stock Brick, to be selected and<lb></lb>
marked for that Purpose, and finished with a ruled Joint. All the<lb></lb>
Arches over the several Apertures and Recesses in the external Walls<lb></lb>
of the Building, and in the internal Walls of the Sub-Hall, to be<lb></lb>
formed of Malm Stocks, gauged and set in Putty; and the Apertures<lb></lb>
and Recesses in the internal Walls of the Building to be arched <lb></lb>
Bricks of the same Kind as what are to be generally used in the Build-<lb></lb>
ing: And all the Groins of Arches to be formed of Malm Stocks.</p>
<p n="3">MASON.<lb></lb>
East, or Principal Front.From the Top of the Footings, to the<lb></lb>
under Side of the Fascia, which terminates the rustick Part of the<lb></lb>
Front, to be of the best Purbeck Stone; the rest of the Front, the Pedestals</p>
</div1>

View as Text