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{{Infobox company
| name             = Improved Industrial Dwellings Company
| type             = [[Public company|Public]]
| foundation       = [[London]], [[United Kingdom|UK]] ({{Start date|1863}})
| founder          = [[Sir Sydney Waterlow, 1st Baronet|Sydney Waterlow]]
| location_city    = [[London]]
| industry         = Housing
| products         = [[Model dwellings]]
| footnotes        =
}}
[[File:Clarendon Buildings, Balderton Sreet, Mayfair, June 2023.jpg|thumb|right|The Clarendon Buildings on Balderton Street, [[Mayfair]]. Built by the IIDC in 1872.]]
The '''Improved Industrial Dwellings Company''' ('''IIDC''') was a [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] [[Model dwellings company]] founded in 1863 by the printer, [[philanthropist]] and later Lord Mayor of London [[Sir Sydney Waterlow]]. The company operated predominantly in Central [[London]] as a provider of block dwellings for the [[working classes]], employing a strict selection and discipline regime amongst its tenants to ensure a healthy return on investment.<ref>Tarn, J.N. (1968) The Improved Industrial Dwellings Company, Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, vol. 22, pp. 43-59.http://www.lamas.org.uk/archives/transactions/volume22.html</ref> Starting with a capital of £50,000,<ref>[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=074-lma4013&cid=-1#-1 National Archives acquisition LMA/4013]</ref> the IIDC became one of the largest and most successful of the model dwellings companies, housing at its height around 30,000 individuals.<ref>Wohl, A.S. (1977) The eternal slum: housing and social policy in Victorian London. London: Edward Arnold</ref>
Waterlow's example was influential.  The Newcastle Upon Tyne Improved Industrial Dwellings Company was set up by James Hall of Hall Brothers Steamship Company, Tynemouth, after visiting Sir Sydney Waterlow's establishment in London.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/jameshalltynemo00haywgoog|title=James Hall of Tynemouth: A Beneficent Life of a Busy Man of Business|last=William Hayward|date=1896|publisher=s.n.]|others=unknown library|language=English}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://newcastleareas.wordpress.com/2019/06/02/garth-heads/|title=Garth Heads|last=Geography|first=Kay's|date=2019-06-02|website=Newcastle residential areas|language=en|access-date=2019-06-03}}</ref>
==Buildings==
Waterlow worked with the builder Matthew Allen, choosing not to use an architect. Blocks built by the IIDC include:
*[[Marlborough Buildings]], [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol12/pp66-78#h3-0017|title = Settlement and building: From 1865 to 1900 &#124; British History Online}}</ref>
*[[Huntingdon Buildings]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22752|title=Bethnal Green: Building and Social Conditions from 1876 to 1914 &#124; British History Online}}</ref> [[Bethnal Green]]
*[[Leopold Buildings]], Bethnal Green
*[[Sandringham Buildings]], Charing Cross
*[[Cromwell Buildings]], [[Southwark]]
*[[Langbourn Buildings]], [[Finsbury]]
*[[Clarendon Flats]], Mayfair<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41887|title=Plate 31: Working-class housing &#124; British History Online}}</ref>
*[[Cobden Buildings]],<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-491070-cobden-buildings-128-islington| title = Cobden Buildings, Clerkenwell, London}}</ref> Kings Cross Road, [[Islington]] (1865)
*Ambrosden Avenue, [[Devil's Acre]], [[Westminster]]
*[[Derby Buildings]], Britannia Street, [[London Borough of Camden|Camden]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.peterbarry.co.uk/blog/2011/feb/09/plus-ca-change/|title=Plus ça change|date=9 February 2011}}</ref>
*[[Old Tower Buildings]], Brewhouse Lane, [[Wapping]] (1864)
*[[Compton Buildings]], [[Finsbury]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119425#s6n|title = Northampton Square area: South and north of Northampton Square &#124; British History Online}}</ref> (1871)
*[[New Tower Buildings]], [[Wapping High Street]], [[Wapping]] (1886)
There were others in Old St Pancras Road, Wapping, Greenwich and Islington.<ref>[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=074-lma4013&cid=-1#-1 National Archives acquisition LMA/4013]</ref>
==See also==
*[[List of existing model dwellings]]
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=074-lma4013&cid=-1#-1 National Archives acquisition LMA/4013; list of blocks built by the IIDC]
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