21-24, Hawthorne Terrace

Nos 21-24 Hawthorne Terrace is a terrace of two pairs of cottages built around 1909-1914 by Parker and Unwin for the Joseph Rowntree Village Trust. The design features a parlour and living room plan with a side hallway entry and a scullery at the rear. The cottages are two storeys high and have nine first-floor windows, with gabled cross wings at each end. They showcase standard "New Earswick" window panes throughout. A round-arched through passage is flanked by pairs of 2-light casements for each cottage. On the first floor, there are 2-light half dormer casements along the spinal range and pairs of 3-light casements at the gable ends. Stacks rise through the front pitch of the roof, with ridge stacks at the gable ends. New Earswick is particularly significant for its role in the development of low-cost housing in Britain. The practices and experiences gained here were influential in the Tudor Walters Report of 1918, which contributed to the passing of the Addison Act of 1919. Plans from New Earswick also informed the Government Manual on low-cost housing that followed the Act.