Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3283NW GREENMAN STREET
635-1/60/998 Peabody Square Block B

GV II

Model Dwellings for the Peabody Trust, now flats. 1864-65 by
Henry Darbishire. English bond banded stock and grey brick.
Slate roof. Eleven symmetrically placed brick stacks.
Rectangular eleven-window range with set-back narrow
three-window ends. Five storeys, with 3/3 sashes to lower
floors, attic with three narrow casements per bay. Central
opening under painted brick roundels between second and third,
and ninth and tenth, bays on each floor. Saw-tooth brickwork
band at second floor, heavy dentil cornice of artificial
stone. Rear elevation identical but large four-light staircase
windows set under recessed pointed arch rising through centre
of four storeys and with 'P' in roundel over. Doors for refuse
collection on ground floor.
INTERIOR: originally a series of two-and three-room suites let
weekly, with shared kitchens and lavatories in the narrow
ends. This plan still recognisable in arrangement of twenty
flats set along original corridors. This is the first Peabody
estate arranged in what became a standard design across
London, and the most elaborate. It was the second Peabody
scheme overall.

Listing NGR: TQ3205783979

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490177

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)