Numbers 22 And 24 With Archway To Left

Nos 22 and 24 are a pair of semi-detached houses built in 1914 by Parker and Unwin for the Joseph Rowntree Village Trust. They feature a lobby-entry plan with a living room and scullery side by side, along with a coal shed and WC in an outbuilding. The houses are constructed of brick and topped with a French tile roof. They are two storeys high and have two first-floor windows, with the right bay projecting forward beneath a gable. Throughout the houses, there are half-glazed doors and standard "New Earswick" window panes.

The right cottage has a 2-light casement window with a door beneath a segmental arch to the left. The left cottage features a door beneath a segmental arch, with a 2-light casement window to the right and a single-light casement window to the left. A round arch to the left conceals the outbuilding, which has a hipped roof. On the first floor, there is a 3-light casement window to the right and a flat-topped 2-light casement half dormer to the left. The original 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.