Number 31 And Walls And Gate Piers To Highbury New Park

ISLINGTON

TQ3285SW HIGHBURY NEW PARK 635-1/39/461 (North West side) No.31 and walls and gate piers to Highbury New Park

GV II

Detached house. 1852-5. Developed by Henry Rydon. Yellow brick covered with stucco except to basement, roof obscured by parapet. Two storeys over basement, four-window range. The principal front reads as a pedimented wing of three-window range with a wing of one-window range set back to the left. Steps up to round-arched entrance in left-hand bay of pedimented wing, with moulded architrave and scrolled keystone; entrance flanked by rusticated piers capped by paired enriched consoles carrying cornice with pulvinated bay-leaf frieze between. Ground-floor windows flat-arched and set behind round-arched openings with moulded stucco architraves; storey band; first-floor windows flat-arched with architraves; the side wing has a segmental-arched carriage entrance to ground floor/basement, and round-arched window above; balustraded parapet; moulded stucco cornice overall; pedimented gable to three right-hand bays with acroteria, the tympanum filled with a wreath and festoons over a blank panel. Two pairs of stuccoed gate piers to left and right with bracketed cornices and ball finials; short run of balustrading to outer sides, the stuccoed inner wall no longer balustraded. (London Journal: T.F.M.Hinchcliffe: 'Highbury New Park. A nineteenth-century middle-class suburb': London: 1981-: 29-44).

Listing NGR: TQ3225685212