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 Division of the second Place, having the same breadth of twelve feet upon twenty five of depth; the which shall serve likewise unto fifteen feet of bredth, and thirty five and an half of depth, the whole inclusively.

EVen as the whole breadth is in nothing different from that of the fore go∣ing Figure, so there shall not be any difference in the parts. Therefore the Hall shall have nine feet in breadth, and the Passage three; and so for the story above, the Chamber shall have the whole breadth of twelve feet. But the dividing the depth may be done in two manners; the one as the fore-going, without a Closet, allowing the remainder of the depth which this Figure hath more then the former, to the Hall, or to the Court, or else partly to the one and partly to the other. The second manner is in making a Closet at the end of the Hall, and of the same breadth of nine feet upon three and an half deep, which is the least that you can allow to the Closet; and this same depth of three feet and an half is also the greatest that you can allow to the Closet in this present depth: For if you make it deep∣er, you shall not have room enough for the situation of the bed; and in this manner there will remain fourteen feet deep as well for the Hall as the Chamber.

And it must be observed, that from this breadth unto that of nineteen feet, the Closet cannot be made otherwise; but coming to twenty, one may change it, as shall be shewed hereafter.

And where the breadth of the place shall be greater then twelve feet, and less then fifteen, the remainder shall be allowed to the breadth of the Hall and the Chamber, leaving always the Passage of three feet.

And as concerning the depth, from twenty five feet unto thirty five and an half, the re∣mainder thereof shall be added to the Hall, the Closet, and Court, at the discretion of the Builder.

The heights shall be nine feet under the Joysts, for the first and second stories, and eight for the third, as in the foregoing Figure: and accordingly the same height of steps shall be fol∣lowed in the present work.

The Precaution as concerning the coming out of the Stairs above the Privy shall be kept, as in the precedent Figure.