Receipt for bricklaying and carpentry work. Includes work to Master's Lodge: taking up old floor and laying new one; examine flue and work to hot plate; cut away brick work to hot plate and fix a new damper in the flue.
Work to the college: point windows; clear tops of chimneys; work to top of Hall chimney. Take down cornice of room and work to ceiling; repair the ceiling and walls of passage and cement lower part. White the ceiling and colour walls; cut out lights in the Hall and point same; work to staircase ceiling and cement round doorway. Carpenter's work: make a trap door to the roof of Porters' Lodge, fix a slide board to [?].
Work to Courts and precincts. New build work to the side of a door, work to wall and fixing glass on same. Work to wall in backyard: clean bricks and cart them away from the old wall near the new Church into College grounds. Cleaning out drain; work to outhouse; open and clean out five traps and cesspools. Open and clean out drain from the pump and make good as was quite full. Open drain in the last court, found it quite full and opened it all along the court to clean it out; made good and arch over same and lay pebbling. Dig out and lay a new piece of 9 inch tubular drain from the old drain across the grass plot and into the sewer of the servants water closets. Repair and lay the paving in the cloisters. Open and clean out cross drains and cesspools and cover over same, re-laying pebble paving. Take up the drain from the pump and paving. Work to water closet. Open drains and found only dry bricks and full cesspools; lay in drains to provide drainage for whole court. Work to and connect drainage and unstop drains in garden; carrying new drainage system to the side of college and connecting it the old system. Also taking up and newly paving part of the court next to the from gates and the entrance to cloisters.
Carpenter's work: fixing iron bars to frame, assisting with Fire Engine [?]; mend the skirting and fix fillets and work to door in the Porters' Lodge. Fixing two new seats, risers and bearers to the Fellows' Water Closets. Also making good the skirting and casing the pipes. Mend the fence next to the Common; mend the fence in the Close and fix and tar hooping. Take down seats and risers in young men's water closets and mend casing. Mend fence on the Common. Refix seats to Water closet. Mend the gate leading to the Close and the adjoining fence.
Work to the kitchen: work to hot plates; mend the paving in the Larder; bed[?] mortar and pestle; take off hot plate and repair the flue; take up stones in scullery, clean out drain arch over the scullery and relay the stones; work to range and chimney; work to new furnace.
Carpenter's work: repair chopping block and affix new legs; fix bearer to dresser; new face dresser plane over dresser in pantry, prepare and affix a rack for spits. Refix shelf in Larder and move a cupboard there; prepare and fix a new shelf, make a new end to the fire screen and make a dust box.
Also includes cost of materials: floor bricks, bricks, mortar, sand, plaster of Paris, cement, tiles, tubes, bends, nails, deal, bearers and screws, tar, tenter hooks, oak.
Includes abstract on the final page of the receipt breaking the cost down into Master's Lodge, The Courts and Precincts, the College and the Kitchen. Pencil notes breaking the costs down between carpenter and bricklayer. Total cost £52 3s 6d. Receipt dated 28th November 1865 and signed by D. Bradwell and Son.
