82-88, CHESTNUT GROVE

Nos. 82-88 on Chestnut Grove is a terrace 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 and have a French tile roof. Each cottage features a lobby entry leading to a living room and scullery beyond. The buildings are two stories high and have nine first-floor windows, with a central weatherboarded gable for each pair.

The ground floor has half-glazed doors and plate glass sash windows, while the first floor has 4-pane sash windows. There is a central round-arched through passage, and each pair of cottages includes two 4-light canted bay windows flanked by doors beneath round arches adorned with decorative tiling. On the first floor, there is a central flat-topped 2-light half dormer, with single-pane casements at a slightly lower level on either side. Each gable contains a pair of 3-light casements, and the outer bays have 2-light windows. The cottages have a hipped roof, and the 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.