The art of fair building represented in the figures of several uprights of houses, with their ground-plots, fitting for persons of several qualities : wherein is divided each room and office according to their most convenient occasion, with their heights, depths, lengths, and breadths according to proportion : with rules and directions for the placing of the doors, vvindows, chimnies, beds, stairs, and other conveniencies ... : also a description of the names and proportions of the members belonging to the framing of the timber-work, with directions and examples for the placing of them / by Pierre Le Muet ... ; published in English by Robert Pricke ...

The second Division of the eighth Place, of the same breadth of fifty feet upon fifty eight of depth.

THe second manner according to which the space above mentioned may be divided, is by a Body of a Building situate on the Front, having in depth thirty eight feet and an half within the work upon the whole breadth, the which shall be divided upon the Fore-part into an Hall, being thirty feet broad upon twenty deep; a Passage of five feet, and a Stable fourteen feet broad. The Back-part shall contain a Kit∣chen and a Chamber, the Stair-case being between the two. The Kitchen shall have twenty five feet in breadth upon seventeen deep, the Stairs nine feet, and one Chamber thirteen feet and an half. At the end of the Kitchen is a Buttery, ha∣ving nine feet broad upon eleven and an half deep, behind which shall be the Privy. One may set at one of the corners of the Stairs a Privy to serve above. The Court shall be forty feet broad upon seventeen and an half deep.

The descent of the Cellar shall be taken right under the first turning of the Stair-case.

And if one would within the same depth have the Court a little larger, he may gain two feet upon the depth of the Hall.

For the heights, the Floor of the Building shall be two feet higher then the level of the Causey with∣out, and for to ascend thereto you may have divers fashions. The first by taking one step or two upon the street, and the rest in the thickness of the wall, if it may be suffered you; if not, you shall take all the steps within the Passage, even as they are pointed upon the Platform. And to descend into the Court, which shall have the same level with that without (the running down of the water excepted) they shall take two steps within the Passage of the Stair-case, and two within the Court, that there may be allowed a convenient opening for the Court-gate.

The first story shall have in height thirteen feet under the Joysts, and thirteen feet nine inches, contain∣ing the thickness of the Joysts and Plancher, to which they shall ascend by twenty nine steps of five in∣ches eight parts high apiece.

The second story shall have in height twelve feet nine inches, containing the thickness of the Joysts and Plancher, to which they shall ascend by twenty six steps, which shall have five feet and one part in height apiece.

The third story shall have ten feet nine inches in height, containing the thickness of the Joysts and Plancher, to which they shall ascend by twenty five steps of five inches apiece.

Above may be Granaries or Chambers in Garrets, from eight to nine feet under the Joysts.