82, Highbury New Park

This is a detached house built between 1856 and 1861, developed by Henry Rydon and likely designed by Charles Hambridge. It is constructed of yellow brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with red brick and stucco or stone dressings, and a roof of artificial slate. The house has three storeys over a basement and a three-window front. A round-arched entrance is set within a three-storey wing slightly recessed to the right. The entrance surround uses alternating red and yellow brick with an embattled moulding, a foliage impost band, and round-arched windows above, ornamented with gauged brick heads. A machicolated parapet tops the wing. The main front has a shallow bay window on the basement level, and the ground floor features a pair of round-arched windows with alternating red and yellow brick, an embattled moulding and a foliage impost band. The first floor has three windows set within a round-arched stucco arcade of panelled pilasters, foliage capitals and an unmoulded archivolt with a pointed extrados. A first-floor balcony projects out, supported by angled courses of bricks. A red and yellow brick cornice band runs to a rebuilt coped parapet. The second floor has two windows with wedge lintels and chamfered reveals, where the chamfer stops in the stonework. Brick dentils are present at the boxed eaves, and a hipped roof has truncated side stacks. A gabled wing to the right of the porch, likely contemporary with the main building, connects to a similar wing at No. 80 Highbury New Park. A narrow, two-storey extension sits to the left, featuring a conservatory on the ground floor, likely dating from the 19th century.