Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3285SW HIGHBURY NEW PARK 635-1/39/465 (North West side) No.49 and attached wall and gate piers to Highbury New Park

GV II

Detached house. 1856. Developed by Henry Rydon and designed by Charles Hambridge. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond with dressings of red brick, stucco and possibly also stone, tiles, roof of artificial slate. Three storeys over basement, three-window range. Steps up to round-arched entrance in recessed single-storey wing to left: cornice, overlight and panelled doors of original design; head of alternate red and yellow brick, embattled parapet of stone or stucco; there is a further single-storey wing of one-window range to the left, recessed, and having, like the porch, cast iron window guards. On the principal front the ground floor has red and yellow brick in bands of three courses up to an impost band of bricks set at an angle; round-arched windows with heads of red and yellow brick; bracketed bay window to the first floor with three round-arched windows, the heads of gauged red brick and the upper part of the bay generally corbelled out on imposts; bands of encaustic tiles above and below the windows; second-floor window round-arched with heads of gauged red brick under a shallow central gable, the eaves otherwise carried on a Lombard frieze except where interrupted by windows and side stacks; cornice of bricks set at an angle; hipped roof. Two pairs of stuccoed panelled gate piers with cornice, and balustraded wall between. This house matches no 47 Highbury New Park (q.v.) in design. (London Journal: T.F.M.Hinchcliffe: 'Highbury New Park. A nineteenth-century middle-class suburb': London: 1981-: 29-44).

Listing NGR: TQ3236885295

External Links

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