13-16, Hawthorne Terrace

Nos. 13-16 Hawthorne Terrace is a terrace consisting of two pairs of cottages, built between 1909 and 1914 by Parker and Unwin for the Joseph Rowntree Village Trust. The cottages are constructed of brick with a French tile roof and feature a parlour and living room plan with a scullery at the rear. They are two storeys high with attics and have eight first-floor windows. The standard "New Earswick" window panes are present throughout. The penultimate bays project forward and contain canted bays that rise through two storeys. The central pair of canted bays is flanked by replacement doors set in round-arched porches, along with three-light casements. The projecting bays have six-light casements beneath hung tiles, while the outer bays feature two-light casements. The porches have half-glazed doors leading to the gable ends. On the first floor, there is a pair of two-light casements beneath a wide weatherboarded gable, flanked by three-light half dormer casements. The canted bays have six-light casements beneath hung tiles, and the outer bays have two-light half dormer casements. In the attic, there are two-light casements in diaper-patterned brick at the gable ends of the projecting bays. The 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.