Number 31 and Walls and Gate Piers to Highbury New Park is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. House.
Number 31 and Walls and Gate Piers to Highbury New Park
- WRENN ID
- burning-mantel-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington North MP: Jeremy Corbyn (YP)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TQ 322 852
- Coordinates
- 51.55031, -0.09389
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 31 is a detached house built between 1852 and 1855, developed by Henry Rydon. The building is constructed of yellow brick covered with stucco, except for the basement, and features a roof that is obscured by a parapet. It has two storeys over a basement and consists of a four-window range.
The main facade presents as a pedimented wing with a three-window range, while a one-window range wing is set back to the left. There are steps leading up to a round-arched entrance located in the left-hand bay of the pedimented wing. This entrance is adorned with a moulded architrave and a scrolled keystone, and it is flanked by rusticated piers topped with paired enriched consoles that support a cornice featuring a pulvinated bay-leaf frieze in between.
The ground-floor windows are flat-arched and set behind round-arched openings with moulded stucco architraves, and there is a storey band. The first-floor windows are also flat-arched with architraves. The side wing includes a segmental-arched carriage entrance to the ground floor/basement and a round-arched window above it. The building is topped with a balustraded parapet and a moulded stucco cornice. The three right-hand bays culminate in a pedimented gable with acroteria, and the tympanum features a wreath and festoons over a blank panel.
Additionally, there are two pairs of stuccoed gate piers on either side of the entrance, each with bracketed cornices and ball finials. The outer sides have a short run of balustrading, while the inner wall is stuccoed but no longer has balustrading.
Local climate
Number 31 and Walls and Gate Piers to Highbury New Park sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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