Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3285SW HIGHBURY NEW PARK 635-1/39/464 (North West side) No.47

GV II

Detached house. 1856. Developed by Henry Rydon, designed by Charles Hambridge. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond with dressings of red brick, tiles, stucco and possibly also stone, roof of slate. Three storeys over basement, three-window range. Basement stuccoed; steps up to round-arched entrance in single-storey porch wing to left with one more bay further left and set back; cornice and fanlight; the gauged red brick head, and upper part of the porch generally, corbelled out on impost blocks, and having a band of encaustic tiles above the entrance; openwork parapet to porch probably a replacement. Ground floor generally has red and yellow brick alternating in bands of three courses up to an impost band of bricks set at an angle; round-arched windows with heads of alternating red and yellow brick. Bracketed bay window to first floor with three round-arched windows, the gauged red brick heads and upper part of the bay corbelled out on impost blocks with bands of encaustic tiles above, and coped parapet; two round-arched windows to second floor with heads of gauged red brick set under a shallow central gable; the rest of the front and sides has a Lombard frieze supporting eaves, interrupted by stacks and windows to returns; hipped roof, side stacks with oversailing courses. This house matches no 49 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: TQ3235985285

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