Number 31 And Walls And Gate Piers To Highbury New Park

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.