PEABODY SQUARE BLOCK 1

PEABODY SQUARE BLOCK 1, GREENMAN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210116
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1994
List Entry Name:: PEABODY SQUARE BLOCK 1
Statutory Address:: PEABODY SQUARE BLOCK 1, GREENMAN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210116
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1994
List Entry Name:: PEABODY SQUARE BLOCK 1
Statutory Address 1:: PEABODY SQUARE BLOCK 1, GREENMAN STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PEABODY SQUARE BLOCK 1, GREENMAN STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Islington (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 32087 83994

Details

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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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.