9-12, Hawthorne Terrace

Nos 9-12 Hawthorne Terrace is a terrace of four cottages built around 1907 by Parker and Unwin for the Joseph Rowntree Village Trust. Constructed from brick with a pantile roof, the terrace features two pairs of through living room cottages separated by a through passage, along with projecting end cottages. The building is two storeys high and has nine first-floor windows. It includes gabled end bays and two gables on the spinal range, with standard "New Earswick" window panes throughout. The round-arched through passage is flanked by pairs of three-light fixed windows beneath soldier arches on both the spinal range and the gabled end bays. There are entrance porches on the side elevations. On the first floor, there is a central flat-topped two-light half dormer, flanked by pairs of two-light fixed windows in the gables of the spinal range and three-light fixed windows in the gabled end bays. The eaves are sprocketed, and the stacks have been removed. The significance of New Earswick is highlighted by its role in the development of low-cost housing in Britain, influencing the Tudor Walters Report of 1918 and the subsequent Addison Act of 1919.