New Dwellings in the Suburbs of Birmingham 
interwoven with the 
requirements ot mod¬ 
ern 1 ife. In every 
case, materials, strictly 
local, have been used 
in a simple manner 
mostly on small plots 
of ground, which have 
all been laid out in a 
more or less formal 
scheme. Any natural 
declivities, though 
slight in all cases but 
one, have been util¬ 
ized to the fullest 
extent in terracing 
and in forming banks. 
Thus variety is ob¬ 
tained, while the val¬ 
ues of grass lawns 
even where space is 
precious, have not 
A HOUSE AT LYNDEN END 
been overlooked as a means both for recre¬ 
ation and as breath-givers to the lay-out. 
In the house at Kenilworth, a boldly 
sloping site gave great opportunities for 
effect on a small scale in the rough stone re¬ 
taining walls round the lawn, and the interior 
fittings of this house are admirable in their 
simplicity, devoid of effort yet correct in 
proportion. 
At the Edgbaston house ( A ) the wood¬ 
work has been worked out in each of the 
principal rooms from the same basis of de¬ 
sign—an excellent arrangement, too often 
lost sight of and one giving a feeling of great 
coherence to the internal aspect of the house. 
The square plan here is an economical treat¬ 
ment where it is not always easy to avoid 
clumsiness in the elevations, but the difficulty 
is well got over in this case. 
Although the sloping buttresses ot the 
house at Lynden End give this example a 
touch of the prevailing fashion which even 
the bold treatment of the large dormers can¬ 
not dissipate, there is a well-marked vein 
of novelty through all these houses which 
cannot fail to be refreshing. 
ENTRANCE TO THE HOUSE AT LYNDEN END 
M. B, 
