Numbers 13-15 And Archway To Right

Numbers 13-15 and the archway to the right form a terrace built in 1910 by Parker and Unwin for the Joseph Rowntree Village Trust. This range consists of five cottages designed for living rooms and sculleries, with a projecting end cottage, and is part of one side of a three-sided quadrangle. The building is two storeys high and features five first-floor windows, a projecting gable on the left, and an archway to the gardens on the right. The cottages have standard "New Earswick" window panes throughout.

The left cottage has an unglazed door beneath a canopy, with a three-light casement window beneath a relieving arch to the right. The spinal range includes paired cottages, each with replacement doors in additional porches, flanked by three-light casement windows beneath relieving arches. To the right, there is a round-headed archway. On the first floor, there are four-light windows, except for pairs of two-light windows located above the porches. The original stacks have been removed.

New Earswick is 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.