1 and 2, Western Terrace is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1986. A Edwardian Semi-detached houses. 1 related planning application.
1 and 2, Western Terrace
- WRENN ID
- errant-obsidian-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Outer MP: Mr Luke Charters (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1986
- Type
- Semi-detached houses
- Period
- Edwardian
- Address
- 1 and 2, Western Terrace, New Earswick, YO32 4BW
- OS grid reference
- SE 609 551
- Coordinates
- 53.9888, -1.07242
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1 and 2 Western Terrace are a pair of semi-detached houses built between 1902 and 1905 by Parker and Unwin for the Joseph Rowntree Village Trust. They are constructed from whitewashed brick and have a pantile roof. The houses feature a living room that extends into a wide rectangular bay at the front, with direct entry to the side and a scullery at the rear.
The buildings are two storeys tall with a symmetrical facade, highlighted by a wide central gable that projects forward. Each house has two first-floor windows, with small-paned windows throughout. The central area has small 2-light windows flanked by projecting bay windows, arranged in a pattern of 1:4:1 beneath a hipped roof. On the first floor, there are 3-light casements in the central gable, flanked by 2-light casements. The hipped roof has had its stacks removed.
This design is unique in New Earswick, which is significant for its role in the development of low-cost housing in Britain. The practices and experiences from New Earswick were influential in the Tudor Walters Report of 1918, which helped lead to the Addison Act of 1919. Plans from this area also shaped the Government Manual on low-cost housing that followed the Act.
Local climate
1 and 2, Western Terrace receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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