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 on the Front of the eleventh Place, which looketh towards the street.

THe floor of the bodie of the Building on the Front, and of the first Chamber and Wardrobe thereof on the left hand, must be of the same level with the Court: and must have of height eighteen feet and an half under the Joysts, the which must be separated by an Enter-Girder in all the Rooms or Apart∣ments, which must be on the left hand of the Gate. The height from the floor under the Joysts of the Enter-girder must have ten feet, and containing the thickness of the Joysts and Plancher ten feet nine inches, to the which they must ascend by twentie one steps of six inches and two parts each of them, and from the floor of the Enter-girder to under the Joists of the first storie, there must be seven feet nine inches; and containing the thickness of the Joists and Plancher eight feet and an half; unto which they must ascend by seventeen steps of six inches of height each of them.

The second storie must have twelve feet under the Joists, and containing the thickness of the Joists and Plancher, twelve feet nine inches, to the which they must ascend by twentie four steps, which must have of height six inches four parts and an half each of them.

Above may be garners or chambers in Garrets, from nine to ten feet under the Joists.