Item 5 - General Repairs in College and Master's Lodge

11 items, paper, pinned.

Date and signature appears on pp.4, 7, 10, and 11, suggesting repairs to the Master's Lodge, college, precincts, and kitchen were four separate transactions.

• Master's Lodge: cut away and prepare stone to receive casement etc; cut through wall and dig out drain, in order to clean it out and make it good; take down two old ceilings and part of a third, and lath and plaster new ones; pointing a window, and making and fixing a new casement and frame; repair ceiling joists in bedroom and pantry; take up and repair WC floor, fix pipe casing and seat and riser and fill in with dust; repair floor and shelves in butler's pantry; take up and lay new floor in passage; take down iron bars from windows and fix new ones; take up stove and build up large opening in chimney, contract, and prepare and fix stove; plumbing works on roof; take down and refix wainscoting in dining room; new beads, pulleys, and sash for windows in dining room, study, and landing; fill in space between floor and skirting; repair floor in morning room, and on first and second floors; repair doorway and cistern in WC; make good floor to tile hearth in dining room, and repair wooden chimney piece; prepare and fix architraves in dining room; make and fix a model for hotplate in kitchen; clean out garden privy. Includes cost of bricks, mortar, drainpipes, cement, sand, lath, nails, plaster of Paris, stucco, oak, brass butts, screws, lime, deal, scaffold hire, brass buckles, beads, pulleys, locks, sash fastenings, glue, and wages for labourers, plasterers, bricklayers, and plumbers. Total cost £51 11s 4d.

College: take down ceiling in Mr Goss' rooms, lath and plaster new one; take down plaster and make good after plumbing work has been done; make blocks for pump; take out seat and pipe casing in WC in New Building and fix new; take down and fix shelves in gyp room; ease door in Pump Court and make repairs; ease Mr Robinson's door and alter lock; take out and fix door and coal bin in M staircase; make and fix two ladders to the roof of New Building for protecting slates, and assist in fixing wire caps to chimney pots; refix casing to bell wires in passage; cut away plasterwork for plumbers to do their work, then make good after; take up hearth stone, clear away rubbish, and lay in slates to secure hearth stone from fire; cut away stonework to windows; take down and fix stone mantle shelf in ground floor rooms off the cloisters; repair plastering in staircases, lobbies, and landings in K and L staircases; repair plastering in Porters' Lodge; take down and fix coping dtone on the wall and repair plaster in Porters' Lodge; fix brickwork around chimney and vents in Mr Morgan's room, and repair plastering; repair floor tiles in New Building no.1 and 2. Includes cost of laths, nails, stucco, plaster, mortar, cement, sand, screws, floorboards, deal, bricks, slates, Portland cement, air bricks, ventilator and wages for labourers, plasterers, bricklayers, and plasterers. Total cost £24 2s 8d.

Precincts: take up old WC seat, cut away for plumbers, and prepare and fix new seat; repair brickwork on garden wall; repair roofs of stable and outbuildings; open and clean out drains in garden, round the chapel, and in Old Court; build chimney to gardener's house (including erection of temporary scaffold); repair slating; work to top of chimney and chimney pot; take up and relay pavement in Old Court (so that drains can be cleared out properly); make a grass beater for gardener; repair roof of Ball's house; prepare and fix new casing and splash board to pump and fix standard and fix up with door; open and clean out 5 drains and cesspools, including taking up and relaying stone pavement. Includes costs of deal, nails, screws, lime, bricks, hair mortar, cement, sand, pantiles, bucks, slates, chimney pot, plain tiles, oak, and and wages for labourers, bricklayers, and for carting away rubbish. Total cost £28 12s 3d.

Kitchen: open flues; take off hotplates; open and clean out drains and cesspools in scullery. Includes costs of fire bricks, mortar, tiles, bucks, hair mortar, bricks, sand, and wages for bricklayers and labourers. Total cost £2 4s 1d.