Regency Estate (London)

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Norfolk, Probyn and Jessel Houses (1902-04) are the earliest in the Regency Estate and contemporary with the adjacent Millbank Estate, completed in 1902.
They display unusual attention to architectural decoration for social housing in the modish Arts and Crafts manner. They are all four storeys over basement, with slate mansard roof storey.
These blocks were considered of such national importance as exemplary social housing that their foundation stone was laid by HRH The Prince of Wales (who became King George V seven years later) on 27th April 1903 in the presence of the then Mayor of Westminster HM Jessel. This is commemorated by the foundation stone on the end elevation of Probyn House.
The later Schomberg House is slightly different and plainer in style. It dates from 1926-7, is five storeys in height and is in red brick and stucco.