9-15, Chestnut Grove

Nos 9-15 on Chestnut Grove is a terrace of two pairs of cottages built between 1909 and 1914. The cottages are constructed of brick and topped with a French tile roof. They are two storeys high, with single-storey outshuts at either end and a total of eight first-floor windows. The central front rooms of each pair project forward beneath a catslide roof, featuring twin gabled dormers that provide light to the bedrooms above. The windows throughout are standard "New Earswick" panes, with replacement doors flanked by single-light windows in the outer bays. The central bays project and have paired four-light casements, with single-light casements on either side. The first floor has two-light casements throughout, and there are roof lights above each dormer. 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.