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Latitude: 51.5514 / 51°33'4"N
Longitude: -0.0921 / 0°5'31"W
OS Eastings: 532379
OS Northings: 185335
OS Grid: TQ323853
Mapcode National: GBR GJ.ZC8
Mapcode Global: VHGQT.C85K
Plus Code: 9C3XHW25+H5
Entry Name: 53 and 55, Highbury New Park
Listing Date: 30 September 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1298034
English Heritage Legacy ID: 368977
ID on this website: 101298034
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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ISLINGTON
TQ3285SW HIGHBURY NEW PARK
635-1/39/467 (North West side)
Nos.53 AND 55
GV II
Semi-detached houses. 1856. Developed by Henry Rydon and
probably designed by Charles Hambridge. Yellow brick with
dressings of red brick and stucco, roof of Welsh and
artificial slate. Three storeys, two windows each, no. 55
extended to the right with basement and ground-floor wing of
three-window range. Basement and ground floor stuccoed and
projecting slightly across the principal front of both houses.
Basement decorated with banded rustication. Ground floor with
round-arched entrance set back under flat-arched porch, the
entrance having pilasters, sidelights, cornice, fanlight and
panelled door of original design; ground-floor windows
flat-arched, these and porch openings divided by panelled
pilasters carrying entablature with guilloche ornament to the
frieze, and blocking course. First-floor windows round-arched
with hollow-moulded recessed architraves under pointed-arched
heads, now stuccoed; courses of red brick between first-floor
windows; sill band to second floor of bricks set at an angle;
second-floor windows flat-arched in recessed surrounds of red
brick with heads of gauged red brick; eaves cornice of bricks
set at an angle; hipped roof; stacks to party walls and end
stacks. These houses match nos 41-43 and 141-43 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: TQ3237485339
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