Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3285SW HIGHBURY NEW PARK
635-1/39/474 (East side)
No.70

GV II

Detached house. 1856-61. Developed by Henry Rydon and probably
designed by Charles Hambridge. Yellow brick set in Flemish
bond, stucco, roof of Welsh slate. Three storeys over
basement, five-window range, double- fronted. Steps up to
flat-arched entrance under single-storey prostyle porch, the
antae having double rows of stylised palm leaves to capitals,
entablature, deep cornice and balustraded parapet above. One
ground-floor window to either side, flat-arched and set in a
slightly projecting stuccoed bay with window guards, engaged
antae matching those of the porch, frieze panel with Vitruvian
scroll and lion's head ornament, and scrolled brackets
supporting a balustraded balcony to first-floor windows; which
are round-arched with moulded stucco architraves; central
window with fluted Corinthian pilasters and moulded stucco
archivolt flanked by pilasters carrying fluted brackets with
lion's heads over and a frieze with a panel of Vitruvian
scroll and lion's head ornament; a pair of windows to either
side with fluted Corinthian pilasters and moulded stucco
archivolts, all set under a single cornice with relief
scrolled work in the spandrels. Storey band between first and
second floors. Second-floor windows have segmental arches with
stucco archivolts on fluted imposts with moulded stucco impost
band; moulded stucco cornice to boxed eaves; hipped roof with
side stacks with oversailing courses.
(London Journal: T.F.M.Hinchcliffe: 'Highbury New Park. A
nineteenth-century middle-class suburb': London: 1981-:
29-44).

Listing NGR: TQ3242485297

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490197

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