Item 33 - Misc. repairs around college

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£6 13s 6d paid for various repairs to the Master's Lodge, including cleaning down the church door jambs, repairing the seat of the WC and the fanning at the back, fixing the skylight and putting fastenings on the door, repairing the servants' two WCs, fixing two door sills on the closet and garden gate, fixing window boards to the landing window, and sourcing the materials required for all these repairs (bricks, deal planks, mortar, whitewash, etc.). Payment brought forward to 1874, including new costs for further repairs to WCs, outbuildings, the coach house, the floor of the butler's room, and other misc. repairs. Total cost £17 5s 11d.

Also costs for repairs around the rest of college totalling £19 19s, for: raising ladders and repairing slating, repairing slating over servants' hall, cleaning out drains, rehanging door in Pump Court, examining fireplaces and cutting away/repairing the stone work, cleaning out the cesspool, repairing floor in old buildings, replastering staircases, fixing stone work in the cellar, taking out the mangle from the buttery and fixing it, carpentry work in Old Court, taking up old stone in passage, cleaning out the gutters and pipes around the chapel, repairing slating over roof of I staircase, fixing wine and coal bins, fixing noticeboards and repairing the floor in chapel, and sourcing the materials for all these repairs.

£37 6s 3d paid for repairs around the precincts, including: repairs to pipe casings, fences in wood yard, garden gate, door of WC, cutting holes and letting in irons for gate latches, work to the stables, repairing slating and chimney pot, and sourcing building materials for all these repairs, taking up stone paving in courts, continued work on traps and drains, digging out and draining cesspool, repairing paving to front entrance, replacing flag paving in cloisters, repairing and rehanging back gates, fixing pebbling and brickwork, making and hanging a 4-bar oak gate, make a beater and mallet, and sourcing the materials for all this work.

£25 3s 7d paid for repairs to kitchen, including: repairing steps, making and fixing a drawer, opening and cleaning large cesspool and carrying away the filth in the night cart, cleaning out drains, removing and cleaning the hot plates, preparing and fixing plate rack and top of sink and shelves in scullery, and a new front for the dresser, cleaning round the oven, taking up the old floor and replacing it with York floor, repairing/cleaning copper.

Total payments for repairs across 1873-4 to be paid at Michaelmas 1874, totalling £99 14s 9d.