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 sixth Place, having the same breadth of thirty feet, and of depth fifty eight.

THe second Division of the same space followeth in breadth the foregoing Division, in a Passage of four feet and an half, and the rest in an Hall of twenty five feet upon twenty of depth, the which is followed by a Kitchen of seventeen feet of depth upon twenty of breadth: and the rest of the breadth is employed in the Stairs, which have nine feet of breadth within the work. At the end of the Kitchen is a Buttery of eight feet broad upon eleven deep, behind which is the Privy. And by these means we have made the body of the Building double, by placing the Court behind, which hath twenty one feet of breadth upon seventeen and an half of depth.

There is not any change in the story above, but onely that the Chamber hath twenty feet in square, and the Wardrobe nine and an half in breadth, where one may also make a Chimney, as is shewed by the Figure before.

For the heights, the Hall shall have twelve feet three inches under the Joysts, and thirteen feet, con∣taining the thickness of the Joysts and the Plancher; to the which story they shall ascend by twenty six feet of six inches apiece.

The second story shall have eleven feet nine inches of height, containing the thickness of the Plan∣cher, and they shall ascend by twenty four steps.

The third story shall have ten feet nine inches, contain in the thickness of the Joysts and Plancher, to which they shall ascend by twenty two steps.

Above may be made Granaries, or Chambers in Garrets, as in the foresaid manner.

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[illustration] architectural diagram

the front to ye street

the second Storie,

the first storie,

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[illustration] architectural diagram

next the Court,

Front next ye street,

of the 2d, story,

Ground plot of the First story,

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[illustration] architectural diagram

next the Court,

Front next the street,

the second storie

the first storie

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[illustration] architectural diagram

The Front to the Street,

Front to the

The Ground plot of the first storie.

the second Storie,

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