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James Pattersons proposals
for building Stewards
House—£350..—

To build a Stewards [...] 36 feet in Length by 30 feet [...]
One storey High 10 feet [pitch] agreable to the [opposite] to be
suported on brick pillars 8½ feet High from the surface of
the Earth 2 stacks of brick Chimneys the floor of the Kitchen
to be Laid with brick The frame of the house to be made out
of Eastern Pine or oak timber the Lower floor to be Laid with
1¼ inch flooring boards square Edge the upper floor Laid with
inch boards plained on the underſide the the outſide of the frame
weatherboarded the front only Plained & beaded five batten Doors
Eight windows sashes 18 Lights Each seven by nine inches
A cieling to the inside of the frame the whole to be finished
in a substanshall workman Like manner finding all materials
nails, Locks Hinges. [&C] the whole to be compleated before the
first Jan^y. 1795 for the sum of three hundred and fifty Pounds

by J Patterson

He will also undertake to finish the house
for the President of the University by the same
time for the sum of seven hundred Pounds. the
terms of Payment one third on Demand one
third when the frames are Raised and the
other third when finished—

(14.3)

[1793]