17-20, Hawthorne Terrace

Nos 17-20 Hawthorne Terrace is a terrace of four shops built in brick with a French tile roof. The building has two storeys with attics and features 14 first-floor windows, with the fourth and eleventh bays having Mansard gables at the attic level. The windows throughout are standard "New Earswick" panes, except for the shop fronts, which have plate glass and central half-glazed doors, with two fielded-panel doors in architraves in the gable bays that serve as entrances to the flats above. The ground floor is sheltered by a tiled canopy. On the first floor, there are 2-light casements, and the attics have 2-light dormer casements, except for those in the gables of the fourth and eleventh bays. The roof is hipped with ridge stacks. New Earswick is significant for its role in the development of low-cost housing in Britain, with practices from this area influencing the Tudor Walters Report of 1918 and the subsequent Addison Act of 1919.