Examples of Cottages. By John Birch. (Blackwood and Sons.) —This
is a new and enlarged edition of a work originally pub- lished in 1871. The designs for cottages are twenty in number, all representing buildings which have been actually erected. There are also designs for shooting and fishing lodges, dairies, town resi- dences, a convalescent home for children, &c. The cost is given in several cases, quite enough to show the way in which Mr. Birch works. Plate 7 gives the plan of a block of four cottages built for 4128 each. This included outside and inside porch, living-room, scullery, three bedrooms, with all necessary outbuildings, drainage, Rec., and fixtures, as range, &c. A single cottage, "con- taining entrance-porch, staircase, living-room, and three bedrooms, with scullery, pantry, wood-house, and outbuildings," cost 4130. Still cheaper is a block of three at £380 (lowest estimate). There are also plans for improved dwellings for the poor, for which the architect claims that they can compare favourably, as regards cost, with the buildings erected by the Peabody Trustees.—Mr. Birch also publishes Examples of Stables, &c., useful in their department.
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