Description

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

External Links

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