74, Highbury New Park

This is a detached house dating from 1856 to 1861, developed by Henry Rydon and likely designed by Charles Hambridge. The house is constructed of yellow brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with red brick and stucco or stone dressings, and has a roof of artificial slate. It is three storeys high, with a basement, and has a five-window front, presented as a double-fronted design.

A projecting gabled porch with steps leads to a flat-arched entrance. The entrance is contained within a round arch, flanked by pilasters with foliage capitals that support a blank entablature and a foliage cornice. The cornice's outer ends act as imposts to two concentric round arches of alternating red and yellow brick, with a glazed tympanum above. The porch gable has a foliage cornice supporting carved griffins as kneelers. A pair of round-arched windows are positioned on either side of the porch, with foliage imposts and archivolts of stucco or stone and gauged red brick, with scalloped and panelled blind boxes.

The first-floor windows are arranged around a deeply recessed, three-window central section behind a prostyle round-arched arcade with foliage capitals and archivolts of stucco or stone and red and yellow gauged brick, the arcade being slightly recessed under a shallow pointed-segmental arch. The two outer first-floor windows have round arches with heads of alternating red and yellow gauged brick, plain brick hoodmoulds and a small arcade of two round arches immediately in front of the sash windows, featuring scrolled openwork in the spandrels. Second-floor windows have segmental arches with heads of alternating red and yellow brick, a four-centred hoodmould, a springing band of brick, and red brick diaper patterns between the windows. A machicolated cornice runs to the boxed eaves, and a hipped roof is topped with side stacks. A 20th-century garage extension is visible to the right.