80, Highbury New Park

ISLINGTON

TQ3285SW HIGHBURY NEW PARK 635-1/39/478 (East side) No.80

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, roof of Welsh slate. Three storeys over basement, three-window range. Steps up to round-arched entrance in gabled porch projecting from a three-storey wing set back to left: the head probably originally alternately of red and yellow brick, but now painted, with an outer moulding of embattled billets; foliage impost band; first- and second-floor windows round-arched with panelled pilasters and stucco archivolts, the first floor also having foliage capitals. 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 presumably of alternating red and yellow brick, now painted, 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; coped parapet, rebuilt; 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. Gabled wing to the left of the porch, possibly of a date with the main building, and linked to a similar wing on no 82 Highbury New Park (q.v.): basement and ground floor, the ground floor window round-arched. (London Journal: T.F.M.Hinchcliffe: 'Highbury New Park. A nineteenth-century middle-class suburb': London: 1981-: 29-44).

Listing NGR: TQ3242385395