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68, Highbury New Park

A Grade II Listed Building in Islington, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5509 / 51°33'3"N

Longitude: -0.0916 / 0°5'29"W

OS Eastings: 532415

OS Northings: 185281

OS Grid: TQ324852

Mapcode National: GBR GJ.ZJL

Mapcode Global: VHGQT.C8FY

Plus Code: 9C3XHW25+99

Entry Name: 68, Highbury New Park

Listing Date: 26 July 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1298035

English Heritage Legacy ID: 368983

ID on this website: 101298035

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 635-1/39/472 (East side) No.68

GV II

Detached house. 1856-61. Developed by Henry Rydon and probably designed by Charles Hambridge. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, roof of tiles. Three storeys over basement, five-window range, double-fronted. Steps up to segmental-arched entrance in stucco porch now simplified to pilasters and moulded cornice. One ground-floor window to either side, flat-arched and each set in a slightly projecting stuccoed bay with window guards, and pilasters supporting frieze with a panel of Vitruvian scroll and lion's head ornament; first-floor windows are round-arched with moulded stucco architraves; central window has fluted Corinthian pilasters and moulded stucco archivolt flanked by pilasters, and a frieze with a panel of Vitruvian scroll and lion's head ornament; a pair of windows to either side with fluted Corinthian pilasters and moulded stucco archivolts, all set under a single cornice with relief scrolled work in the spandrels. Storey band between first and second floors. Second-floor windows have segmental arches with stucco archivolts on fluted imposts with moulded stucco impost band; moulded stucco cornice to boxed eaves; hipped roof with side stacks with oversailing courses. (London Journal: T.F.M.Hinchcliffe: 'Highbury New Park. A nineteenth-century middle-class suburb': London: 1981-: 29-44).

Listing NGR: TQ3241685281

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