Architect, of London, for whom see Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 (RIBA 2001), I, 183. John Birch exhibited a design for Mourne Park, Co. Down, at the Royal Academy in 1886. He brought out several books of designs for buildings on country estates. In his Picturesque Lodges (1879), he published designs for two lodges and a bridge on the estate of the Earl of Carysfort at Glenart Castle, Co. Wicklow, and for a gate lodge for the Earl of Roden at Tollymore Park, Co. Down. In his Concrete buildings for landed estates in Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1881), he shows designs for labourers' cottages for the Earl of Carysfort at Glenart and for the Earl of Wicklow at Shelton Abbey, Co. Wicklow, and for labourers' cottages and a gate lodge for the Earl of Roden at Tollymore, Co. Down. There are also designs a temperance inn on the Glenart estates in the Vale of Avoca, and for two farm houses and a school with an attached schoolmistress's house in other Irish locations.
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References
RA 1886, no. 1624.
John Birch, Picturesque Lodges (1879), Pls. 13,14,15.
9 work entries listed in chronological order for BIRCH, JOHN #
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CO. DOWN, TOLLYMORE PARK |
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1879a |
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Gate lodge, for Earl of Roden. |
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John Birch, Picturesque Lodges (1879), ?; John Birch, Concrete buildings for landed estates in Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1881), 27-8,Pl.8.
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CO. DOWN, TOLLYMORE PARK |
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1881A |
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Proposed labourers' cottages, for Earl of Roden. |
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John Birch, Concrete buildings for landed estates in Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1881), 22,Pl.4
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CO. WICKLOW, AVOCA, INN |
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1881a |
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'renovation and conversion of an old building [on the Gleart Estate] in the…vale of Ovoca…to meet the requirements of a temperance inn for visitors in the summer months…made for a nobleman possessing large estates in this neighbourhood'. for Earl of Carysfort. |
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John Birch, Concrete buildings for landed estates in Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1881),xiv,33,Pl.12
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CO. WATERFORD, MOCOLLOP CASTLE, FISHING LODGE |
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1892a |
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Fishing lodge 'recently built...for a tenant... on a rising ground to the rear of Mocollop Castle' consisting of 'dining-room, library, fishing-tackle and smoking room, two gentlemen's bedrooms, and two servants' bedrooms, bath-room, water-closet, and the usual kitchen offices and appurtenances'. 2-storey with dormer windows and verandah. Local rubble stone, rough-cast, with slate roof. Cost £900. (In ruins, 2011.)
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John Birch, Examples of Labourers' Cottages, &c. with plans for improving the dwellings of the poor in large towns (William Blackwood: Edinburgh & London, 1892), 37, Pl. 21 (copy in IAA).
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CO. WICKLOW, SHELTON ABBEY |
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? |
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Labourers' cottages for Earl of Wicklow. |
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John Birch, Concrete buildings for landed estates in Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1881) 21,Pl.3
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Birch, John |
Picturesque Lodges |
1879 |
London & Edinburgh: W. Blackwood & Sons, 1879. |
Birch, John |
Concrete buildings for landed estates in Great Britain and Ireland |
1881 |
London: T. Pettitt & Co., 1881. (Copy in IAA.) |