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Latitude: 51.5394 / 51°32'21"N
Longitude: -0.0968 / 0°5'48"W
OS Eastings: 532087
OS Northings: 183994
OS Grid: TQ320839
Mapcode National: GBR Q2.DB
Mapcode Global: VHGQT.8KPR
Plus Code: 9C3XGWQ3+Q7
Entry Name: Peabody Square Block 1
Listing Date: 30 September 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1210116
English Heritage Legacy ID: 368939
ID on this website: 101210116
Location: Islington, London, N1
County: London
District: Islington
Electoral Ward/Division: St Peter's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Islington
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St James Prebend Street
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Architectural structure
ISLINGTON
TQ3283NW GREENMAN STREET
635-1/60/997 Peabody Square Block A
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 arch, with C20 door. 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: TQ3208783994
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