Peabody Square Block C

Peabody Square Block C is a model dwelling built for the Peabody Trust between 1864 and 1865 by Henry Darbishire. The building features English bond banded stock and grey brick with a slate roof. It has eleven symmetrically placed brick stacks and is five storeys high. The rectangular façade has eleven windows, with narrow three-window ends that are set back. The lower floors have 3/3 sash windows, while the attic contains three narrow casements per bay. A central opening is located under a painted brick arch, which has a 20th-century door. Painted brick roundels are positioned between the second and third, and the ninth and tenth bays on each floor. There is a saw-tooth brickwork band at the second floor and a heavy dentil cornice made of artificial stone. The rear elevation is identical to 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 the twenty flats that line the original corridors. Peabody Square Block C is significant as the first Peabody estate designed in what became a standard layout across London, and it is noted for being the most elaborate of the early schemes.