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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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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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