9-21, Station Avenue

Nos 9-21 on Station Avenue is a terrace of houses built between 1902 and 1905 by the architects Parker and Unwin for the Joseph Rowntree Village Trust. The buildings are constructed of brick and topped with a French tile roof. Each house has a direct entry to the living room, with a scullery located beyond. The terrace is two storeys high and features nine first-floor windows, with a wide central gable that encompasses two dwellings and asymmetrical end gables. Throughout the terrace, there are board doors and standard "New Earswick" window panes.

The central gabled bay includes four-light windows set beneath relieving arches, flanked by doors that are recessed in porches. This gabled bay is bordered by pairs of round arches, with the inner arches leading to through passages and the outer arches containing recessed doors to Nos 13 and 19. To the left, there are two four-light canted bay windows and a door to No 11, which is also recessed in a porch. To the right, there is a four-light casement window beneath a relieving arch for No 19. The outer bays feature doors in open porches supported by wooden posts at the corners, along with four-light windows beneath relieving arches.

On the first floor, the central gable contains a pair of three-light windows beneath relieving arches, flanked by small single-pane windows and flat-topped half dormers with two-light and three-light configurations. The end gables have three-light windows, and small inserted roof lights are positioned beside the central gable. The original stacks have been removed.

The significance of New Earswick lies in its role in the development of low-cost housing in Britain. The experiences and practices established here were influential in 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 shaped the Government Manual on low-cost housing that followed the Act.