Earlier model housing for the poor
One context for the Sutton Dwellings Trust is obviously provided by the poor- and workhouses and earlier attempts to provide housing by private individuals, such as Streatham Street, Bloomsbury, houses erected by The Society for Improving the Conditions of the Labouring Classes (founded 1844) and Angelas Burdett-Coutts's flats in Columbia Square, Bethnal Green (1857-60), and the Peabody Estate on Henman Street, Islington (1865) funded by George Peabody's trust founded five years earlier.
Victorian architecture in Chelsea
Left to right: Richard Norman Shaw's 60a and 62 Cadogan Square and his 68 and 72 Cadogan Square, and J. J. Stevenson's 63-73 Cadogan Square
The second context for the Trust buildings: The Pont Street Dutch brick style, which had already gone out of fashion by the time the buildings were constructed.
Bibliography
Banerjee, Jacqueline. “Pont Street Dutch, Queen Anne, and other Knightsbridge Styles.” Victorian Web.
Roger Dixon and Stefan Muthesius. Victorian Architecture. 2nd ed. London: Thames and Hudson, 1985.