90, Highbury New Park

This detached house was built in 1856-61 as part of the Highbury New Park development, likely designed by Charles Hambridge for developer Henry Rydon. The house is built of yellow brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with red brick and stucco or stone dressings, and has a slate roof. It is three storeys high with a basement, and features a three-window front.

A round-arched entrance is set within a two-story porch that is recessed to the right. The archway’s head is constructed of alternating red and yellow brick with an outer moulding of embattled details. A foliage impost band runs across it, and a window is placed above on the first floor, echoing the details of the arch. The porch has a machicolated parapet. The main front has a shallow bay window covering the basement, ground, and first floors. The ground floor has a pair of round-arched windows also using alternating red and yellow brick with an embattled moulding and a foliage impost band. The first floor has three windows set within a round-arched stucco arcade framed by panelled pilasters, foliage capitals, and an unmoulded archivolt with a pointed extrados. A balcony is corbelled out on three angled courses of bricks. The second floor has two windows with wedge lintels and chamfered reveals, where the chamfers are abruptly stopped. The eaves have brick dentils, and the roof is hipped with side chimneys.