10-16, POPLAR GROVE

10-16 Poplar Grove is a terrace of cottages built between 1902 and 1905 by architects Parker and Unwin for the Joseph Rowntree Village Trust. Constructed from brick and French tile, the terrace consists of two pairs of cottages with a through living room plan. The buildings are two storeys high and feature six first-floor windows, highlighted by a wide central gable.

Each cottage has original half-glazed double doors and standard "New Earswick" window panes throughout. The entrance to each house is beneath a fanlight and is flanked by a two-light casement window, with a replacement fixed window in an altered opening that was formerly the entrance to the WC. On the first floor, there are three-light casements in the center and pairs of low three-light casements in the outer bays. The 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. The plans from New Earswick also influenced the Government Manual on low-cost housing that followed the Act.