Peabody Square Block B

Peabody Square Block B is a model dwelling built for the Peabody Trust, now functioning as flats. Constructed between 1864 and 1865 by Henry Darbishire, the building features English bond banded stock and grey brick, topped with a slate roof. It has eleven symmetrically placed brick chimneys and a rectangular range of eleven windows, with narrow three-window ends set back. The structure is five storeys high, with 3/3 sash windows on the lower floors and an attic that includes three narrow casements per bay. There are central openings under painted brick roundels between the second and third, and 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 rented weekly, with shared kitchens and lavatories located in the narrow ends. This layout is still recognizable in the arrangement of the twenty flats along the original corridors. Peabody Square Block B is notable as the first Peabody estate arranged in what became a standard design across London, and it is the most elaborate of the early schemes, being the second Peabody project overall.