88, Highbury New Park

ISLINGTON

TQ3285SW HIGHBURY NEW PARK 635-1/39/482 (East side) No.88

GV II

Detached house. 1856-61. Developed by Henry Rydon and probably designed by Charles Hambridge. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond with dressings of red brick and stucco or stone, C20 tiled roof. Three storeys over basement, three-window range. Steps up to round-arched entrance in rebuilt two-storey porch set back to right: the head of red brick with an outer moulding of embattled billets; first-floor window to porch wing round-arched with similar details; machicolated parapet. The main front has a shallow bay to the basement, ground and first floors. The ground-floor has a pair of round-arched windows with heads of alternating red and yellow brick under a moulding of embattled billets, linked by a foliage impost band; the first floor has three windows set in a round-arched stucco arcade of panelled pilasters, foliage capitals and unmoulded archivolt with pointed extrados; first-floor balcony corbelled out on three oversailing courses of bricks set at an angle; two second-floor windows with wedge lintels and chamfered reveals, the chamfer stopped in the stonework; brick dentils to boxed eaves; hipped roof with side stacks, now truncated. Included for group value. (London Journal: T.F.M.Hinchcliffe: 'Highbury New Park. A nineteenth-century middle-class suburb': London: 1981-: 29-44).

Listing NGR: TQ3241085455