21-27, CHESTNUT GROVE

A terrace of cottages consisting of two pairs, built in 1907 as part of the New Earswick Village scheme. Designed by Parker and Unwin for the Joseph Rowntree Village Trust, the terrace is constructed of brick with a French tile roof. The layout features a lobby entry leading to a living room and a scullery. The two-storey terrace has six first-floor windows, with central gables over each pair of cottages. Standard "New Earswick" window panes are a characteristic feature. Later additions include porches, replacement doors, and pairs of canted bay windows between the bays, interrupting a tile band at the cornice level. The first floor windows comprise a small casement over each central door, flanked by pairs of three-light casements set within the gable ends. Roof lights are positioned on either side of the gables. The roof is hipped, and chimney stacks have been removed. The development of New Earswick was significant in the advancement of low-cost housing in Britain; the experience and practices gained were incorporated into the influential Tudor Walters Report of 1918, which contributed to the passage of the Addison Act of 1919. Plans from New Earswick also informed a government manual on low-cost housing issued after the Act.