5-8, Hawthorne Terrace

Nos 5-8 Hawthorne Terrace is a terrace of two pairs of cottages built in 1907 by Parker and Unwin for the Joseph Rowntree Village Trust. The cottages are constructed of brick and feature a French tile roof. Each cottage has a lobby entry leading to a living room and scullery. The building is two storeys high with six first-floor windows, each pair topped with central gables. The windows have standard "New Earswick" panes throughout. There are replacement glazed doors in additional porches for the two central and outer bays, which flank pairs of canted bay windows that interrupt a tile band at the cornice level. On the first floor, there are two small casements above the central doors, flanked by pairs of three-light casements at the gable ends. Roof lights are positioned beside the gables, and the roof is hipped. The original stacks have been removed. New Earswick is particularly significant for its role in the development of low-cost housing in Britain. The practices and experiences gained here were influential in the Tudor Walters Report of 1918, which contributed to 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.