List of existing model dwellings

Model dwellings were buildings or estates constructed, mostly during the Victorian era, along philanthropic lines to provide decent living accommodation for the working class.

They were typically erected by private model dwellings companies and usually with the aim of making a return on investment, hence the description of the movement as "five per cent philanthropy.

This list covers urban development on the principle of "five per cent philanthropy"; for communities built to house workers for a particular trade or employer, see model village or company town.

The Improved Industrial Dwellings Company (IIDC) was founded by the stationer (and later Lord Mayor) Sir Sydney Waterlow in 1863.

It grew out of the Labourer's Friend Society into a housing provider in 1844 and built a number of properties in London, most of which no longer exist.

Peabody Square Model Dwellings in Blackfriars Road, in Southwark, London. These buildings, which still exist, are typical of early Peabody Trust developments, and of pre-World War I social housing in London in general.
Peabody Square Model Dwellings in Blackfriars Road, Southwark
Homes were classified by size on ALGDC estates; this is the smallest on the Noel Park estate, London
Evelina Mansions, Camberwell
Gibson Gardens , Stoke Newington
The first block of Peabody dwellings in Commercial Street , Spitalfields . A wood-engraving published in the Illustrated London News in 1863, shortly before the building opened.
Whitecross Street Peabody Estate