6-12, IVY PLACE

This is a terrace of seven living room and scullery cottages, with a projecting end cottage, dating from 1910. Designed by Parker and Unwin for the Joseph Rowntree Village Trust, they form part of one side of a three-sided quadrangle within the New Earswick estate. The range has two storeys and 13 first-floor windows, with a projecting gable on the right. The cottages are notable for their standardized "New Earswick" window panes. The right-hand cottage has an unglazed door beneath a canopy, with a three-light casement window positioned beneath a relieving arch. The main range features paired cottages, each pair having half-glazed doors recessed within round-arched porches, flanked by three-light casement windows also beneath relieving arches. The first floor windows are mainly four-light, with pairs of two-light windows over the porches. Chimney stacks have been removed. New Earswick’s significance lies in its influence on the development of low-cost housing in Britain, contributing to the Tudor Walters Report of 1918 and the subsequent Addison Act of 1919, as well as influencing government manuals on low-cost housing.