77-83, Chestnut Grove

77-83 Chestnut Grove 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. Each cottage features a lobby entry that leads to a living room and a scullery beyond. The building is two storeys high with seven first-floor windows, and each pair has a central weatherboarded gable. The ground floor has half-glazed doors and plate glass sash windows, while the first floor has 4-pane sash windows. A central round-arched through passage connects the pairs of cottages. Each pair includes two 4-light canted bay windows flanked by doors beneath segmental arches, and there is a continuous string course running along the façade. On the first floor, there is a central flat-topped 2-light half dormer flanked by single-pane casements at a slightly lower level. Each gable contains a pair of 3-light casements, and the roof is hipped. 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 influential in the Tudor Walters Report of 1918, which helped lead to the Addison Act of 1919. Plans from New Earswick also shaped the Government Manual on low-cost housing that followed the Act.