58-64, CHESTNUT GROVE

58-64 Chestnut Grove is a terrace consisting of two pairs of cottages, built between 1909 and 1914 by Parker and Unwin for the Joseph Rowntree Village Trust. The cottages are constructed of brick with a French tile roof. Each cottage features a lobby entry leading to a living room and scullery beyond. The building is two storeys high and has seven first-floor windows, with a central weatherboarded gable for each pair. Throughout the cottages, there are half-glazed doors and standard "New Earswick" window panes. A central round-arched through passage connects the pairs. Each pair of cottages includes two four-light canted bay windows, with doors beneath segmental arches. On the first floor, there is a central flat-topped two-light half dormer, flanked by single-pane casements set at a slightly lower level. Each gable contains a pair of three-light casements, and the building has a hipped roof. The original 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.