84, Highbury New Park

ISLINGTON

TQ3285SW HIGHBURY NEW PARK 635-1/39/480 (East side) No.84

GV II

Detached house. 1856-61. Developed by Henry Rydon and probably designed by Charles Hambridge. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond with dressings of red brick and stucco or stone, roof of artificial slate. Three storeys over basement, three-window range. Steps up to round-arched entrance in single-storey wing set back to right: the head alternately of red and yellow brick with an outer moulding of embattled billets; foliage impost band; machicolated parapet. The main front has a shallow bay to the basement, ground and first floors. The ground-floor has a pair of round-arched windows with heads of alternating red and yellow brick under a moulding of embattled billets, linked by an impost band of flora and fauna; the first floor has three windows set in a round-arched stucco arcade of panelled pilasters, foliage capitals and unmoulded archivolt with pointed extrados; first-floor balcony corbelled out on three oversailing courses of bricks set at an angle; red brick cornice band to coped parapet, rebuilt; two second-floor windows with wedge lintels and chamfered reveals, the chamfer stopped in the stonework; brick dentils to boxed eaves; hipped roof with external stacks, now truncated; single-storey bay to left-hand return between stacks, possibly original. (London Journal: T.F.M.Hinchcliffe: 'Highbury New Park. A nineteenth-century middle-class suburb': London: 1981-: 29-44).

Listing NGR: TQ3241685426