House and Garden 
THE HALL OF A HOUSE (a) AT EDGBASTON 
therefore, comes a building which errs neither on the side 
of necessitated discomfort nor of unnecessary luxury — 
to wit, the small country house. 
It is because of this interest that a quick acceptance is 
gained to the views of any architectural craftsman who 
is willing to bear in mind the fact that a small house 
should be simple in its architectural quality as in its 
dimensions, and who refuses to perpetuate the Victorian 
ideal, deemed a mean affair indeed unless decked with 
all the spurious dignity and details, caricatured in the 
one case and mutilated in the other, of the Greek temple 
and the Renaissance palace. 
THE STREET FRONT OF A HOUSE (b) AT EDGBASTON 
AT EDGBASTON 
Designed by Herbert T. Buckland and 
Heywood Farmer 
Such an architect has but 
to turn to that tradition which 
lingers on in the unpretend¬ 
ing streets of the country 
town, weary of waiting for 
a logical development and 
tolerated more by lack of 
local prosperities than by 
any reverence for its intrin¬ 
sic charm and suitability. 
In the work here illus¬ 
trated the thread of this tra¬ 
dition has been skilfully 
picked up and as cunningly 
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