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Numbers 61, 63, 63A and 63B and Wall and Gate Piers to Highbury New Park

A Grade II Listed Building in Islington, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5519 / 51°33'6"N

Longitude: -0.0922 / 0°5'31"W

OS Eastings: 532370

OS Northings: 185390

OS Grid: TQ323853

Mapcode National: GBR GJ.ZC2

Mapcode Global: VHGQT.C835

Plus Code: 9C3XHW25+Q4

Entry Name: Numbers 61, 63, 63A and 63B and Wall and Gate Piers to Highbury New Park

Listing Date: 30 September 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1195623

English Heritage Legacy ID: 368979

ID on this website: 101195623

Location: Canonbury, Islington, London, N5

County: London

District: Islington

Electoral Ward/Division: Mildmay

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Islington

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St Augustine Highbury

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description


ISLINGTON

TQ3285SW HIGHBURY NEW PARK 635-1/39/469 (West side) Nos.61, 63, 63A & 63B and wall and gate piers to Highbury New Park

GV II

Semi-detached houses. 1856-61. Developed by Henry Rydon and probably designed by Charles Hambridge. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, roof of Welsh slate. Four storeys over basement, two windows each. Basement and ground floor stuccoed; steps up to flat-arched entrance in two-storey recessed entrance wing, the entrance with cornice, overlight and panelled door of original design, and flanked by pilasters carrying entablature; ground-floor windows flat-arched with panelled pilasters; first-floor windows have moulded stucco architraves, panelled aprons and consoles carrying scrolled pediments; sill band to second-floor windows which are flat-arched with moulded reveals; stucco frieze interrupted by windows; eaves cornice; boxed eaves; hipped roofs with dormers to both houses; stacks to party wall and side stacks. No 63B is a linked wing with basement and ground floor, the ground floor having a broad flat-arched window flanked by two narrower ones between panelled pilasters, entablature and balustraded cornice. Two pairs of stuccoed panelled gate piers with cornices and balustraded wall between, the balustrade missing to no 61. (London Journal: T.F.M.Hinchcliffe: 'Highbury New Park. A nineteenth-century middle-class suburb': London: 1981-: 29-44).

Listing NGR: TQ3236885384

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