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 ...

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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 ...
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Le Muet, Pierre, 1591-1669.
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London :: Printed for Robert Pricke ...,
1670.
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Architecture, Domestic -- France -- Early works to 1800.
Building -- France -- Early works to 1800.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47667.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 12, 2024.

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The second Division of the nineth Place, of the same breadth of fifty seven feet, upon one hundred and twenty of depth.

THe second Division of the space above mentioned consisteth in two bodies of a building, the one on the fore part, the other on the back part; the first ha∣ving twenty feet of depth; whereof the breadth consisteth in a Stable, Coach-Passage, and a Kitchen. The stable with a double rank hath of breadth twenty three feet and an half, the Passage for the Coach nine, and the Kitchen twenty two and an half; on the side of which is the Buttery of ten feet broad upon eleven deep, at one of the corners of which shall be the Privy. Next to the Buttery is the stair-case, upon the same breadth of ten feet, and twenty four of depth. The Court shall have thirty four feet in breadth, upon the whole depth of the Stairs and the Buttery, which make thirty six feet, therein containing the thickness of the Wall between the Buttery and the Stairs. The rest of the breadth is employed in a stair-case joyning to the stable, and a gallery at the end: the stair-case hath ten feet in square and the gallery twen∣ty five in depth, upon the like breadth, within which one may put the Coaches, and behind the Coaches at the place marked (A) may be set the Privy.

The bodie of the building behind, which is the principal, which shall have in depth twen∣tie two feet, upon the whole breadth of fiftie seven; it consisteth in an Hall thirtie six feet broad, and a Chamber nineteen and an half. At the two corners of this bodie of the build∣ing may be made, by the outside within the Garden, two small Advances for Privies, which shall be raised onely to the second storie. The Garden shall be thirty six feet deep upon the whole breadth, into which they shall descend by stone-steps.

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