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 Elevation of the body of the building, of the tenth Place, as well in that which looketh toward the Court, as the two Wings over the Street.

THe Floor, as well of the Stable as of the Kitchen, shall be of the same Plumb-Line with the Court; and that of the Bo∣dy of the Building shall be raised two feet above the Floor or Level of the said Court, to which they shall ascend by four steps placed in the said Court.

The first Story shall have thirteen feet under the Joysts, and containing the thickness of the Joysts and Plancher, thirteen feet nine inches; to which they shall ascend by thirty steps, of five inches and an half high apiece.

The second Story shall have twelve feet nine inches, containig the thick∣ness of the Joysts and Plancher; to which they shall ascend by twenty eight steps of the like height of five inches and an half.

The third Story shall have eleven feet nine inches, containing the thick∣ness of the Joysts and Plancher, to which they shall ascend by twenty six steps of the like height of five inches and an half apiece.

Above may be Granaries.

[illustration] floor plan

The Groundplot of the first Story,

[illustration] floor plan

The Groundplot of the second Storie,

[illustration] architectural diagram