18-24, STATION AVENUE

Nos 18-24 on Station Avenue is a terrace of cottages built between 1902 and 1905 by Parker and Unwin for the Joseph Rowntree Village Trust. Constructed from brick and French tile, the terrace consists of two pairs of cottages with a through living room plan. The buildings are two storeys high and feature six first-floor windows, highlighted by a wide central gable. Each house has original half-glazed double doors and standard "New Earswick" window panes throughout. The entrances are beneath fanlights and are flanked by two-light casement windows, with a replacement fixed window in an altered opening that was formerly the entrance to the WC. On the first floor, there are three-light casements in the center and pairs of low three-light casements in the outer bays. The chimney stacks have been removed. New Earswick is particularly significant for its role in the development of low-cost housing in Britain. The experiences and practices established here were incorporated into the Tudor Walters Report of 1918, which played a key role in the passing of the Addison Act of 1919. Plans from New Earswick also influenced the Government Manual on low-cost housing that followed the Act.