Receipt for work done to two new houses on Jesus Lane totalling £64 13s 8d, in;
1845 –
‘For work one to Houses in Jesus Lane occupied by Masters Adams and Porcher.
Jobbing work not to be accounted as fitting up House.’
6th December – Cleaning out gutters; £0 2s 6d
20th December – 3 Loads of shingles and carting to footpath; £0 18s 0d
1846 -
7th February – 14 day 2 Men putting up fillets to roof, Mr. Adams’s House, ditto putty; £0 3s 3d
14th February – Hanging Sash at Mr. Adams’s, 2 ¼ Yards lime; £0 1s 6d
31st February – Repairing slating, 2 men. 1 slate and ½ ton of Blue Hair mortar; £0 2s 2 ½ d
4 days Plaster and Labourer to washing, plastering and printing up; £1 10s 0d
2 hods mortar, ¼ peck plaster, ¼ peck cement; £0 3s 10d
24th April – 1 ¼ days mending floor. 7 x 11 x 3/4; £0 6s 9d
16th May – Emptying Privy; £0 10s 6d
20th June – Job to easing window at Mr. Adams’s,
3 yards of dark lime to do; £0 2s 9d
1 day, 4 men putting on chimney
Pots to both houses; £0 13s 0d
8 hods mortar, 1 slate ½ peck of cement, 25 bricks; £1 12s 5d
[Total =] £6 6s 8 1/2 d
Fitting up house with shelvers
April 3rd – 4 ½ days putting shelves in Pantry, easing door and windows; £1 0s 3d
34 x 11 x 1 ½ , 21 x 11 x 1, 21 mixed nails, 1 [illegible]; £1 0s 10d
2 ½ days Whitewashing ceilings; £0 12s 5d,
Fitting up; £2 13s 7d
4 large Balls of White. 6 H [Hods?] Glue, ¼ peck plaster; £0 5s 2d
11th April – 4 ½ days putting up cupboards; £0 10s 6d
In kitchen, 30 x 11 x 1, 7 x 3 x 3; £0 10s 6d
½ day plaster and labourer making good, round cupboard in kitchen; £0 3s 6d
17th April – 2 days hanging doors and making cupboard front; £0 9s 0d
34 feet super, ¼ Square framed doors; £1 5s 6d
2 for of 2 ½ Buts & Screws. ¼ 2 ½ nails; £0 5s 1/2d
2nd May – 2 days setting Range; £0 13s 0d
100 Building and 100 paving bricks ; £0 12s 0d
8 Hods Mortar; £0 3s 4d
16th May – 1 ¾ days 2 Men building dust men; £0 11s 4 ½d
60 building bricks. 3 hods mortar, 2 pails of lime wash; £0 4s 9d
Job to fixing Bell board 3/3 x 9 x 3/4; £0 1s 1d
1 ¼ days man and labourer washing and stopping airy paving with lime; £0 8s 1 1/2d
34 Bricks, 1 Hod Mortar 7 x 4 x 3 oak; £0 4s 9d
30th May – ½ day 2 men bricking up copper hole and making good floor; £0 3s 3d
10 Bricks, 1 Hod Hair Mortar; £0 1s 0d
6th June – ½ day putting on nobs and buttons easing and changing sashes; £0 2s 3d
2 black nobs, 2 black buttons
2 brass nobs, 2 brass buttons; £0 3s 0d
Total fitting up = £9 16s 10 ½ d
Brought up = £16 3s 7d
‘Painting House Jesus Lane No. 1 and outside of No. 2’
17th April – 3 ½ days painter and 2 ½ days apprentice; £1 0s 9d
18th White paint, 8 pints of oil, 4 pints turps, 8 sheets of sand paper, 3 Hs [Hods?] putty; £0 18s 8d
24th April – 4 days painter; £0 18s 0d
9th May – 4 ½ day man 1 ¼ days apprentice; £1 2s 9d
4 Hs [Hods?] Wt [white?] paint, 6 sheets sand paper; £0 3s 0d
16th May – 4 days Man and apprentice; £1 2s 9d
20 H’s [Hods?] White, 8 H’s stone colour; £0 14s 0d
6 pints of oil, 3 pints of turps; £0 5s 6d
2 Hs Green to Flower Stauns to Windows; £0 2s 0d
23rd May– 6 days painter, 5 days apprentice to outside of the 2 houses; £1 17s 0d
6 White; 8 Stone Colour, 2 pints of oil, 1 pint turps; £0 8s 10d
7 days work by painter 6 days by lad, stopping cleaning and painting; £2 3s 6d
14 ½ White, 7 pints of oil 3 pints turps. ½ pint varnish, 13 Hs Stone Colour , 2 Hs Green; £1 2s 5d
30th May – 2 days 2 painters and apprentice to the houses; £1 1s 0d
6 Hs White, 7 Hs Stone Colour, 3 Hs Lead, 3 pints of oil, 1 pint turps, 3 Hs putty, 4 squares glass; £0 11s 2d; £0 12s 6d
£14 7s 1d
[Total =] £30 10s 8d
28th May – Cleaning and Lackering Brass work
35 Large door nobs, 8 small door nobs
Striking plates, 22 Rosets, 3 new ones.
3 Thumb pieces, 3 key hole plates, 3 drop key plates, 3 new drop key plates,
1 square brass plate; £1 2s 6d
1 Range with Bright fittings in Kitchen; £6 0s 0d
2 Stoves for Dining and Drawing Room; £5 10s 0d
3 Stoves for Bedrooms; £3 6s 0d
1 Stove for Study; £2 10s 0d
In papering Mr. Porcher’s house same as delivered for Mr. Adams; £15 14s 6d
[Grand total =] £64 13s 8d
