Peabody Square Block D

Peabody Square Block D is a model dwelling built for the Peabody Trust between 1864 and 1865 by architect Henry Darbishire. The building features English bond banded stock and grey brick, topped with a slate roof. It has eleven symmetrically placed brick stacks and a rectangular eleven-window range, with narrow three-window ends that are set back. The structure stands five storeys tall, with 3/3 sash windows on the lower floors and an attic that includes three narrow casements per bay. A central opening beneath a painted brick arch contains a 20th-century door. There are painted brick roundels between the second and third, and the ninth and tenth bays on each floor. A saw-tooth brickwork band is present at the second floor, along with a heavy dentil cornice made of artificial stone. The rear elevation mirrors the front but features large four-light staircase windows set under a recessed pointed arch that rises through the centre of four storeys, with a 'P' in a roundel above. There are doors for refuse collection on the ground floor.

Inside, the building was originally designed as a series of two and three-room suites that were let weekly, with shared kitchens and lavatories located in the narrow ends. This layout is still recognizable in the arrangement of twenty flats along the original corridors. Peabody Square Block D is significant as the first Peabody estate arranged in what became a standard design across London and is noted for being the most elaborate of the early schemes, marking it as the second Peabody project overall.