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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Page 23
The Division of the second Place, having seventy two feet of breadth, upon seventy four of depth.
THe depth of this Ground-plot is divided into a Court on the Front, and a bo∣dy of a building and a garden on the hinder part. At the two sides of the Court and of the body of the building shall be built a Stable with a Coach-house, and on the other side a Kitchen with a Buttery: each of them must have fifteen feet broad; and the depth of the Stable and of the Kitchen must be nineteen feet, the Coach-house and the Buttery eight. The Court shall be thirty nine feet broad upon twenty seven deep, from which they must ascend by twenty four steps to the body of the building, which hath twentie two feet deep upon the whole breadth of seventy two, and consisteth in a Hall and a Chamber, between which there must be placed the Stair-case. The Hall shall have in breadth thirty six feet, the stair-case ten, and the Chamber twentie three; and at the end, as well of the Hall as of the Chamber, shall be continued within the Garden two little Galleries, having each of them ten feet broad, upon the whole depth of the garden of twentie one feet. The which garden shall have fortie nine feet of breadth, and they must descend into it by the passage of the stair-case with two steps, and with two steps within the garden, which make the four steps whereby they ascended from the Court to the body of the building: the which is so done, that thereby a conveni∣ent raising might be allowed to the gate. The Privy shall be placed within the thickness of the wall, against the middle division of the stair-case.