A SPECIFICATION OF CARPENTERS JOINERS PLUMBERS AND GLAZIERS WORK OF A NEW HOUSE INTENDED TO BE BUILT AT BARROWFORD FOR MR. ROBERT CROOK 1836.

The contractor to find all materials workmanship or labour to pay all carriges to provide sheds for workman to find all tackling ladder ropes tools ... Also all nails spikes screws inges bolts straps and other iron work requisite for the firmly fixing and putting together of every part of the work belonging to this department Also to find and fix all locks Bolts handles latches and fastners together with every other thing that may be required for the full completion of the work in a good substantial an workmanlike manner to the satisfaction of Robert Crook or any person he may appoint to superintend the same The contractor to find and fix all lintails for inner doors cupboards or any other place where req... the lintails to run one foot into the wall at each end and to be of sufficient strength according to the opening Also all wood pluggs for windows and door heads and other places where required walled in the wall the Pantry to have one Rib 9 In BY 3 In and Spard as above specified.

ROOFE
The roofe to have two pair of principals over house and Shop, Beams ten Inches by five inches Rafters twelve inches by three inches Queen Posts and Collar Beam nine inches by three inches Discharging Braces five inches by three inches Spurs four Inches by three Inches with three ribs on each side eight inches by four inches with a joint Bolt eight inch long five eights dia. Also a joint Bolt seventeen inch long seven eights dia through beam into each queen post foot. Rooftree eight inches by two inches Sparrs two and half inches by three inches and naild on ribs sixteen inches from centre to centre.

FLOORS
The joists of the chamber floors to be eight inches by two and half Inches Braced with two setts of braces with a three quarters round iron bolt through each floor the joists to be laid on walls sixteen Inches from centre to centre and boarded with good and well seasond one inch boards well dressed jointed & groved and naild down The joists over Kitchen and Warehouse to be well dressed on two sides and one edge. The parlour to have oak joists four inches by three inches laid on sleeper walls fourteen inches from centre to centre and boarded with good and well seasond one and quarter inch boards not more than seven Inch broad well dressed jointed doweld and naild down on the edge only and well dressed off when laid All the other floors to be punchd puttied and well dressed off when the plaister work is finishd

DOORS
The parlour to have a six panneld door moulded on both sides framing two inches thick hung to casings breadth of wall and two Inch thick with two iron rising butt inges and mortic lock of ten shillings and sixpence value. The front door of house to be a two inch framed door with panels one inch thick and made to drawing hung to casings four Inches by two and half inches well fixed to stone with three four inch butt inges and iron rim lock of seven and sixpence value with neat fan light over the same The shop door to be made a two inch framd door with one Inch panels and hung in two with two pair of four and half inch butt inges to casings four Inches by two and half well fixed to stone with fan light to drawing with two spring bars one handle and two snecks of five shillings value. The back door to be a good battend door with frame one and half Inch thick and coverd with one inch boards not more than six inch broad and hung with inges of nine pound weight.

A SPECIFICATION OF MASON WORK OF A NEW HOUSE INTENDED TO BE BUILT AT BARROWFORD BY ROBERT CROOK 1856.

The first course of stone for all the out walls to be two feet long and not less than eighteen inch broad and six inch thick and built good random walls up to levil of Ground floor. The front and all the hewing to sampile four houses belonging to Benjamin Moore oposite the house occupied by Robert Crook. The lower gable end to be sett In course and hammer dressed and the remainder of out walls and Inner gable end to be good random walls with two throughs in every sqr yard of walling and to be well flushd with lime morter the strength shawn on plan. The inner walls to be built with six inch parpoints well sett in lime morter. All the walls to be straight & plumb. The front to have a good stone cornice well hewing to drawing. To have tabling fourteen inch broad three Inch thick well set and crampd. The chimney drafts not to be less than fourteen Inches by twelve inches well plaisterd within with haird morter. The chimney tops to be drafted round and neatly pointed off with string course & hewing as shown on plan. All the windows to have bottoms & trough tops the bottoms to project the wall one Inch. The out doors to have bottoms sides and through tops. There must be one flight of stone steps all to be well hewn as before specified. The parlour to have good polishd chimney piece of thirty five shillings value The kichion to have jambe & mantle and OG stone cornice over and all the remainder of the chimney pieces to have jambs and mantles well wrought and neatly toold size shawn on plan and the height to correspond with the width. To have five harths well squard and fit to place in parlour and chamber The passage kitchen pantry warehouse and shops to be flagd with flags well squared and laid in sand. To have square corbels at back to spout troughs not more than three feet apart. The undertaker
to beam and butt filld for Slater & Plasterer and complete the whole of the work to the satisfaction of R Crook or any person he may appoint. If the undertaker thinks proper to get stones upon the premises he must make up the hollows at his own expence also to find all materials for completing the work except lime and sand which will be found by the proprietor. The joiner to find all planks intended for spars for scaffolding but to pay for flat cutting. The undertaker to take stones that are upon the premises at a fare valuation. Also to have it finished or ready for rearing by the first
of May or otherwise forfeit 2 Ł a week for every week afterward. The undertaker will receive [one third] of the sum contracted for when the first floor is laid on and [one third] when reared. The remainder one month after finishd.

SLATERS & PLAISTERS WORK
The slate to be good gray slate and to be well slated. Slating lathe one and half Inch by half Inch and naild on with nails one and half inch long with good ridging laid on with hair morter and the whole of the slate to be well pointed. The house shop pantry warehouse and all the chambers to have two coats of haird morter. The studded partision and ceiling of shop and chambers to be lathed and plaisterd with two coats

of haird morter. The passage and parlour to have three coats of haird morter and ceilings over to be lathed and plaisterd with three coats of haird morter and windows well pointed and building skirted round.

Robt Butler
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Slating & Pointing - - - - - 5
2 Coates Walls & Plasting--- 2
2 Coates' Wall Plasting 31/2
3 Coates of Walls do.
3 Coates of Celing 4

STAIR CASE & CO
To have a meogany handrail and newel neatly turnd round stairs top with one iron baluster in corner and remainder of good deal. There must be panneld pilaster bace and cap to entrance of stair case to a drawing that will be given with an eliptic arch over passage to spring off pilaster.

CUPBOARD
To have a cupboard on one side of fire place in kitchen seven feet high by three feet wide with three drawers in bottom eight nine & ten inch deep with three shelves sixteen inch broad and one inch thick and two Panneld doors with hung with turns and fastners and single moulds round.

CORNER BEADS & WINDOW BOTTOMS.
All windows not specified to have casings must have window bottoms one inch thick well naild to pluggs and corner beads to the same and all other corners where required.

CHIMNEY CORNICES
To have four chimney cornices In chambers and well fixed.

EAVE SPOUTS
To have eave spouts on back of buildings six Inches by four inches with cap and mould ... a conductor three and half inches square well fixed to wall with shoe at bottom and painted both inside and outside before put up and one conductor at lower gable end on front side same size and fixed as above specified. The whole of the bearing timber for roofe troughs & conductor to be of the best Baltic timber and the remainder of the best yellow pine.

GLAZIERS WORK
All the windows to be primed before glazed and to be glazed with the best crown glass with lock and handle of four shilling and sixpence value. The pantry kitchen shop and five chamber doors to be made of three quarters boards dressed groved and naild on four bare four inches by one and quarter and well hung to casing six inch broad with twelve inch Hinges and handle of one shilling and nine pence value to each door with single mould on one side. The inner warehouse door to be made of good one inch boards and naild on four bare four inches by one and half Inches and hung to cheeks four Inches by three inches with bands gudgeon and handle of two shilling sixpence value.

WINDOWS:
The Shop Staircase Warehouse kitchen and pantry to have good stand sashes size shawn on plan The whole of the other windows to be made sliding sashes. The parlour to be double hung and all other single hung with weights cords and axel pullys and sash fastners. The chamber windows to have plain casings with backs and elbows and moulds round. The parlour window to have pannel shutters backs elbows and suffeat with all back having fastners and shutters bare to the same. The parlour window and door to have single moulds round to have shutts to shop window made from 1 1/4 framing and beed and flush panels 3/4 In thick.

WASHBOARDS OR BASE
The parlour to have base & plinth ten inch high with grounds two and half broad and half inch thick well nail to plugs. The house kitchen passage staircase and all the chambers to have washboards seven inch deep and stuck with a torus mould on top edge and well fixed to plugs.

STUDDS & CEILING JOISTS
The Yellow lines-on chamber plan to have studds four inches by two inches well fixed the height of room sixteen inches from centre to centre and all chambers above to have ceiling joists four Inch by one and half Inches well fixed sixteen inches from centre to centre.

[Transcribed from a document found in Barrowford and Lodged in the archive at Pendle Heritage Centre. Transcribed by SCG; 03 December 2005]