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

THis Division consisteth likewise in a Body of a Building double, having of depth within the work thirty six feet upon the whole breadth of fifty, which shall be divi∣ded into an Hall, Stable, and Kitchen; the which Stable and Kitchen shall be separated from the Hall by a Passage and Stairs. The Hall shall have twenty feet of breadth over the whole depth, the Entry and the Stairs nine feet of breadth, the Stable eighteen feet of breadth upon fifteen and an half of depth, the Kitchen shall have the same breadth of eighteen feet upon twenty of depth, adjoyning unto which shall be a Buttery of nine feet in breadth, and fourteen of depth. Behind the But∣tery shall be a Privy. The Court shall have forty feet of breadth upon twenty of depth. The Passage shall have from the Entry unto the foot of the Stairs fifteen feet and an half.

The descent of the Cellar shall be taken down right under the turning of the Stairs.

As for the Heighths, the floor of the Building shall be two feet higher then the level of the street with∣out; and for to ascend thither you may take one step or two upon the street, and the rest in the thickness of the wall, if you may be suffered to make steps in the street; if not, you shall make them all within the Passage, as they are pointed out within the Platform: and to go down into the Court you shall take two steps within the Passage of the Stairs, and two within the Court, thereby to allow to the gate of the Court its Passage.

The first story shall be thirteen feet high from the Floor to under the Joysts, and thirteen feet nine inches, comprehending the thickness of the Joysts and Plancher, unto which you shall ascend by thirty one steps of five inches and eight parts apiece.

The second story shall have twelve feet nine inches, comprehending the thickness of the Joysts and Plancher, to which you shall ascend by twenty four steps, of six inches and four parts and half each of them.

The third story shall have ten feet nine inches of height, comprehending the thickness of the Joysts and Plancher, to the which you shall ascend by the same quantity of twenty four steps, of five inches four parts and an half each of them.

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