72, Highbury New Park

This is a detached house built between 1856 and 1861, developed by Henry Rydon and likely designed by Charles Hambridge. Constructed of yellow brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with red brick, stone, or stucco dressings, it has a roof of artificial slate. The house is three storeys high with a basement, and has a five-window front, presented as a double-fronted design. Decorative red brick courses run throughout the facade, especially on the ground floor.

A projecting gabled porch with steps leads to a flat-arched entrance. This entrance is flanked by pilasters with foliage capitals, supporting a blank entablature and foliage cornice, the outer ends of which form imposts to two concentric round arches of alternating red and yellow brick. The tympanum above the entrance is glazed, and the porch gable has a foliage cornice with carved griffins on the kneelers. A pair of round-arched windows are located on either side of the porch, again featuring foliage imposts and archivolts of stucco or stone and gauged red brick.

The first floor has three round-arched windows centrally positioned above the porch, recessed behind a prostyle round-arched arcade with foliage capitals and archivolts, constructed of stucco or stone and red and yellow gauged brick. The arcade itself is slightly recessed under a shallow segmental arch. The two outer first-floor windows are round-arched with heads of alternating red and yellow gauged brick and plain brick hoodmoulds. A screen of two round arches sits in front of the sash windows, with scrolled openwork in the spandrels. The second-floor windows have segmental arches with heads of alternating red and yellow brick, a four-centred hoodmould, and a springing band of brick with red brick diaper patterns between the windows. The building is finished with a machicolated cornice to the boxed eaves, and a hipped roof with side stacks.

A two-storey wing with a stepped gable is located to the right of the main building, potentially dating back to the original construction.