Numbers 1-5 And Archway To Right

Numbers 1-5 and Archway to Right form a terrace of 1910. Designed by Parker and Unwin for the Joseph Rowntree Village Trust, they represent a range of five living room and scullery cottages, with a projecting end cottage, forming one side of a three-sided quadrangle. The terrace has two storeys, with nine first-floor windows, a projecting gable to the left, and a round-headed archway to the right, leading to gardens. The windows are of a standard "New Earswick" design. The left-hand cottage features an unglazed door beneath a canopy, with a three-light casement below a relieving arch. Each pair of cottages along the spine has half-glazed doors recessed into round-arched porches, flanked by three-light casements, also beneath relieving arches. The first floor has four-light windows, except above the porches where there are pairs of two-light windows. Stacks have been removed. The terrace is of group value due to its contribution to the development of low-cost housing in Britain; the experience gained and practices introduced here influenced the Tudor Walters Report of 1918 and the subsequent Addison Act of 1919. The plans from New Earswick also directly influenced the Government Manual on low-cost housing.