Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3283NW GREENMAN STREET
635-1/60/999 Peabody Square Block C

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 elevatrion 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. Included as 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: TQ3210483964

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505169

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)