Fairchild House, Hoxton

Fairchild House is a 1950 apartment block on the Pitfield Estate in Hoxton, London. When it was built it was the largest council council block that Hackney Council had built to date.

It is a six-storey building of council housing. The Twentieth Century Society notes "the lavish treatment of its Northern elevation". It is a red brick building containing an interesting examples of the Mendelsohn curve of Art Deco, Streamline Moderne architecture.

The building was opened by Aneurin (Nye) Bevan in 1950, the then Labour Minister for Health.

The land surrounding the building contains several plague pits. Signs around the estate advertise this with the following wording "Please Keep off the Grass. This is one of the many burial grounds pertaining to the Black Plague 1665-1666".