90-96, CHESTNUT GROVE

A terrace of two pairs of cottages built around 1909 to 1914 by Parker and Unwin for the Joseph Rowntree Village Trust. The buildings are constructed of brick with a French tile roof. The design incorporates a lobby entry leading to a living room and a scullery. The cottages are two storeys high, with seven first-floor windows in total. Each pair features a central weatherboarded gable. The ground floor has half-glazed doors and plate glass sash windows, while the first floor has four-pane sashes throughout. A central, round-arched passage runs through the terrace. Each pair has two four-light canted bay windows, flanked by doors beneath round arches decorated with tiles. The first floor has a central, flat-topped two-light dormer flanked by single-pane casements at a slightly lower level. Pairs of three-light casements are found in the gables. The roof is hipped, and chimney stacks have been removed. New Earswick is historically significant for its contribution to the development of low-cost housing in Britain. The experiences and practices established here influenced the Tudor Walters Report of 1918, which was crucial in the passage of the Addison Act of 1919. Plans from New Earswick also informed the Government Manual on low-cost housing that followed the Act.