Rural architecture Author:John White Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: to the top of the soffit of the arch; the diagonal openings are each 1 foot 4 inches by 10 feet ; the other two windows on the ground floor are divided into four... more » compartments, having a mullion in the centre, with a transom o inches broad; the height, from the sill to the under side of the transom, is 5 feet 8 inches; and from the upper side of the transom to the top of the window, 2 feet 10 inches by 2 feet 3 inches, crowned with a tablet which reaches 1 foot 8 inches below the top of the window. The chamber floor windows are 17 feet 3 inches from the ground; the one over the porch is 7 feet 4 inches high by 2 feet wide; the two over the oriel window are divided into two compartments, each 2 feet wide by 7 feet 4 inches high, crowned with tablets which reach 1 foot 4 inches below the top of the window. The two chamber windows in the lower part of the elevation are divided into two compartments, each 2 feet wide by 6 feet high. The arrowlets in the gable may be filled with luflfer boards for ventilating the roof. PLATE III.—PLAN OF CHAMBER FLOOR AND BACK ELEVATION. Plan Of Chamber Floor.—The space A represents a Bed-room, 18 feet 6 inches by 13 feet 9 inches; height of ceiling 11 feet. B, Dressing-room to ditto, 14 feet by 10 feet, height 11 feet. C, Bed-room, 17 feet by 14 feet, height 11 feet. D, Bed-room, 15 feet by 12 feet, and 11 feet high. E, Bed-room, 18 feet 3 inches by 15 feet 3 inches, having a pendentive ceiling, as shown in the Section, Plate IV. The flat part of the ceiling is 9 feet 10 inches high, and 8 feet from the floor to the spring of the coved spandrels. F, Bed-room, 13 feet 3 inches by 12 feet; the ceiling of this room to be of the same height and construction as the former G, Bed-room, 18 feet 9 inches by 13 feet 6 inches. ...« less