Building Name

197 - 199 Hookstone Chase Starbeck Harrogate

Date
1903
Street
197-199 Hookstone Chase
District/Town
Starbeck, Harrogate
County/Country
Yorkshire, England
Partnership
Work
New Build

PROTOTYPE WORKERS HOUSES - The design for these cottages at Starbeck was determined by considerations of the possibility of repeating them, arranged as suggested in Diagram Ten. As the outlook from such cottages must in most cases be very limited, it was obviously important that whatever outlook was to be obtained should be the best the site could afford. If the cottages at Starbeck were disposed on the site in the way shown in Diagram Ten and in the photograph of a model, the grave effects of rows on either side of a street would be absent. Each living room would have windows on three sides, and the most limited outlook from any one of these windows would be across two gardens, or one garden and the street. From most points of view a more extended outlook would be commanded. Every living room would have a south window and in addition either an east or west window, and would get a very large proportion of sunshine. Every scullery would face south. Out of every three bedrooms, two would face the south, and the third would have an east or west window, so that an estate laid out on these lines would not have a sunless room upon it.

Reference    The Craftsman  Volume XXI No 6  March 1912 pp 643-655 . Parker, Barry Modern country homes in England: number twenty-two second part,  
Illustration    Exterior A pair of cottages at Starbeck, Yorkshire: March 1912 p645
Illustration    Interior of a cottage at Starbeck. Yorkshire. England,  March 1912 p645