Numbers 2-8 (Consecutive), Beresford Terrace And Attached Garden Walls, Including 66, Highbury New Park

Terraced houses on the north side of Beresford Terrace with an attached corner property at 66 Highbury New Park, built in 1856. Developed by Henry Rydon and designed by Charles Hambridge.

The buildings are constructed in red and yellow brick set in Flemish bond with gauged red brick dressings, stucco and stone details. The roofs are Welsh slate. All buildings are three storeys over basement.

Nos 2–7 Beresford Terrace each have two windows to the street, whilst No. 66 Highbury New Park has three windows facing Highbury New Park and two towards Beresford Terrace. No. 8 Beresford Terrace has three windows to Petherton Road and two to Beresford Terrace.

Nos 2–7 share a consistent design with basements of red brick. Steps lead up to round-arched entrances with panelled doors of original design, set back within round arches. The doorcases are flanked by gauged red brick archivoles with pointed extrados, carried on fluted corbels. Ground-floor windows are protected by iron guards and surmounted by round-arched heads of alternating red and yellow gauged brick, with hood moulds linked by springing bands. Immediately in front of the first-floor windows is a wooden arcade of two round-arches with scrolled openwork spandrels. A continuous stuccoed balcony on brackets runs across, with intermittent iron balustrade and some tile panels. Second-floor windows are basket-arched with chamfered reveals and wedge lintels. A red brick sill band sits at this level, with a second stepped red brick band immediately below a mutule eaves cornice (though the cornice is absent from Nos 5 and 7). Stacks sit against the party walls.

No. 66 Highbury New Park largely follows the design of Nos 2–7 but has notable variations. The basement facing Highbury New Park is stuccoed rather than brick. A slightly projecting gabled wing rises to the left, with steps up to a gabled porch containing a round-arched entrance. A stuccoed canted bay to the left features basket-arched windows and is topped by a parapet with balustrade. Second-floor windows in the left-hand bay are round-arched and arranged in triplets, with chamfered reveals, while two basket-arched windows with chamfered reveals occupy the right side. A red brick sill band and stepped red brick cornice band run across. The eaves are enclosed, and an external stack sits to the left. The Beresford Terrace frontage is gabled with a two-storey stuccoed bay rising from basement to ground floor, containing tripartite windows (segmental-arched at basement level, basket-arched at ground floor). A stuccoed parapet with central iron balustrade crowns this feature. A pair of first-floor windows display round arches with chamfered stone archivolts and red brick drimoulds, with round red brick arches set back within. Second-floor windows are round-arched, chamfered and topped with stone archivolts. Evidence suggests some rebuilding has taken place at No. 66.

No. 8 Beresford Terrace mirrors the scheme at the opposite end but has undergone alterations. Its Petherton Road front has been rebuilt in brown brick with gauged red brick window-heads only, and second-floor windows lack chamfering. On the Beresford Terrace side, the basement remains unrendered red brick, the central column to the first-floor windows is missing, and second-floor windows feature a balcony with low iron balustrade.

The garden walls to Nos 2–7 Beresford Terrace are constructed in brick and stone with square-plan gate piers featuring red brick footings and stone cornices. The intervening walls are decorated with rectangular panels of red brick. These walls have been substantially rebuilt and altered in places. No. 66 Highbury New Park has a stuccoed garden wall with square-plan gate piers lacking original details; the wall between contains a balustrade, which is missing at the corner. The wall to No. 8 Beresford Terrace has been rebuilt.