Numbers 57 And 59 And Attached Wall And Gate Piers To Highbury New Park

Numbers 57 and 59 Highbury New Park are a pair of semi-detached houses built between 1856 and 1861 as part of a development by Henry Rydon, likely designed by Charles Hambridge. The houses are constructed of yellow brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with red brick and stucco or stone dressings, and a roof of Welsh slate.

The original design consisted of three windows across three storeys over a basement for each house. Number 59 has since been extended by a two-window range. The basement and ground floors are stuccoed, with the ground floor featuring banded rustication. Steps lead to flat-arched entrances, each beneath a flat-arched porch featuring rusticated antae and a dentil cornice. The ground-floor windows have flat arches, moulded reveals, window guards to number 57, and balconies to number 59. The first-floor windows are round-arched, set back beneath round arches with imposts, a stucco archivolt, and a gauged brick head, with a continuing impost band of red brick. A bracketed and balustraded balcony is present. A sill band of angled bricks marks the second floor, and the second-floor windows are basket-arched, grouped as four, with stone or stucco lintels. The eaves feature angled brickwork and boxed eaves. The roof is hipped, with stacks along the party wall.

An additional one-window range of basement and ground floor extends from the left side of number 57. A two-storey wing is attached to the right side of number 59, with a canted bay of three windows on the ground floor and a pair of round-arched windows above, set within a round arch with imposts, an archivolt, and a gauged brick head. The wing has an openwork parapet.

The attached wall and gate piers are stuccoed and panelled, with cornices. A balustraded wall connects the piers, although the balustrade is missing from number 57 and one pier is absent from number 59.