9-17, Sycamore Avenue

This is a terrace of six houses, numbered 9-17 Sycamore Avenue, with a projecting cottage at the left end. It was built in 1914 as part of the Joseph Rowntree Village Trust development, designed by Parker and Unwin. The building is constructed of brick with a French tile roof. It follows a lobby-entry plan, with a living room and scullery at the rear.

The terrace is two storeys high and extends across fifteen bays, featuring a gabled cross wing to the right. Throughout the building there are half-glazed doors and four-pane sash windows. The right-hand pair of houses has two windows to its front. The central three bays project forward, creating a round-arched through passage flanked by recessed doors within round-arched porches and paired windows. The left-hand pair of houses also has projecting entrance bays with recessed doors in round-arched porches, bordered by paired windows. The first-floor windows mirror the ground-floor arrangement, with single windows above the doorways. The eaves are sprocketed, and the roof is hipped to the left, with eaves stacks on the left end.

The development at New Earswick is historically significant for its contribution to low-cost housing in Britain, influencing the Tudor Walters Report of 1918 and subsequently the Addison Act of 1919, along with a Government Manual on low-cost housing.