10-16, STATION AVENUE

This is a terrace of two pairs of semi-detached cottages located at 10-16 Station Avenue, New Earswick. They were built between 1902 and 1905 by Parker and Unwin for the Joseph Rowntree Village Trust as part of the New Earswick housing development, which aimed to provide low-cost housing. The cottages are constructed of whitewashed brick with a French tile roof. They are arranged with a through living room plan and extend over two storeys, featuring eight first-floor windows with paired gables over the second and third bays and the sixth and seventh bays. Original half-glazed double doors and standard “New Earswick” window panes are retained throughout. Each house has a recessed porch with a fanlight above the entrance door, flanked by a two-light casement and an altered opening, now containing a window with a vented half-height door below; this opening originally provided access to a W.C., and a single-pane larder window is also present. Continuous tile trim runs above all features. The first floor has three-light casements within the gables, with lower three-light casements to the left and right. Stacks have been removed. The New Earswick development was significant in the development of low-cost housing in Britain, heavily influencing the Tudor Walters Report of 1918, which in turn led to the Addison Act of 1919 and subsequent government guidance on low-cost housing.