16-20, Ivy Place

Nos 16-20 Ivy Place is a terrace of cottages built in 1910 by Parker and Unwin for the Joseph Rowntree Village Trust. This range consists of five living room and scullery cottages, with a projecting end cottage, forming one side of a three-sided quadrangle. The building is two storeys high and features nine first-floor windows, with a projecting gable on the right. The cottages have standard "New Earswick" window panes throughout. The right cottage has an unglazed door beneath a canopy, with a three-light casement window to the right, set beneath a relieving arch. The spinal range consists of paired cottages, each pair featuring half-glazed doors set back in round-arched porches, flanked by three-light casements beneath relieving arches. On the first floor, there are four-light windows, except for pairs of two-light windows located above the porches. The 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 influential in 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 shaped the Government Manual on low-cost housing that followed the Act.