Item 79 - Builders Receipt

1 item, paper.

Receipt from John Gray & Son, builders, for erecting new College Farm buildings, as per estimate. Cost of work comes to £1050 and includes: excavating extra depths of foundations to stables, hen-house, and cart stables and wheeling concrete there; rails for hay rack; partition and sliding door with grooved rails and shaped handle for chaff-house at end of cart stable; elm boarding for base of partition; gate in wall near end of barn; oak posts; pair of hooks and bands; wrot (and cost of fixing); 1 bolt with hasp and 4 staples (and cost of fixing); painting gate and posts; rough framed ledges and braced gate; feather edge to fence with canted deal rails; fence at front of house in yard with oak post, deal rails and 30 pallisades (including 22 hours' worth of carpenter's wages); fence facing street and front of house (same materials, 60 hours' work); repairs to dove house; repairs to roof of stables and harness house (incl. costs of materials and labour). Credit by omissions: glazed pipe draining to ditch, brick boundary between piggery and implement shed; stall divisions in cart horse stable. Signed off by R. Reynolds Rowe (college architect and surveyor).