York Historic Environment Record

SE 6055 SE NEW EARSWICK WESTERN TERRACE (east side) 11/72 Nos 7-13 (consecutive) GV II Terrace. 1902-1905. By Parker and Unwin, for Joseph Rowntree Village Trust. Whitewashed brick and pantiles. Direct entry to living room with scullery beyond. 2 storeys, 13 first-floor windows. Central pair of houses beneath wide gable breaking forward from spinal range which contains 2 dwellings to left and one to right and is flanked by asymmetrical end gables, containing one dwelling each. Replacement glazed doors and standard "New Earswick" size window panes throughout. Central pair: two 4-light casements flanked by doors recessed in porches. Gabled bay flanked by pairs of round arches, the inner ones leading to through passages, the outer ones containing the recessed doors of Nos 9 and 12. To left spinal range has two 4-light canted bays and door to No 8; to right, 3-light and single-light windows to No 12. Outer bays: No 7 to left breaks forward and has door recessed in outer porch to left and 2- and 3-light windows to right. To right No 13 is set back and has a door with sidelight to right and (-light window to left. First floor: 2-light and 3-light casements throughout, those to the spinal range being flat-topped half dormers. Stacks removed. The particular significance of New Earswick lies in its contribution to the development of low cost housing in Britain. Experience gained and practices introduced here were incorporated extensively into the Tudor Walters Report of 1918 which was instrumental in the passing of the Addison Act of 1919. Plans from New Earswick influenced the Government Manual on low cost housing which followed the Act. Sinclair A: Planning and Domestic Architecture at New Earswick, BA dissertation, University of Reading, 1983. Waddilove L: One Man's Vision, London, 1954. Listing NGR: SE6095955092