Number 67 And Attached Wall And Gate Piers To Highbury New Park

ISLINGTON

TQ3285SW HIGHBURY NEW PARK 635-1/39/471 (West side) No.67 and attached wall and gate piers to Highbury New Park

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, stucco and stone; roof of Welsh slate. Three storeys over basement, three-window range. Steps up to porch with stilted, pointed-segmental arch in single-storey wing set back to left: foliage impost band, chamfered arch probably of stone, with gauged brick head over; porch parapet renewed. Two-storey bay to main front: two linked ground-floor windows with stilted, segmental-pointed arches, probably of stone, foliage impost band, and shared balcony with window guards; three linked windows to first floor with pointed arches flanked by pilasters and engaged columns with foliage capitals, the columns carrying elaborate hollow-moulded stucco archivolts under heads of alternating red and yellow brick; cornice band to coped parapet to bay; second-floor windows deep set under shouldered arches of stone set under a pointed arch of red and yellow brick with carving in the tympanum, and foliage impost bands; the windows set under two shallow gables, the rest with boxed eaves to hipped roofs with side stacks. Two pairs of stuccoed and panelled gate piers with cornices and balustraded wall between, the inner right-hand pier truncated. (London Journal: T.F.M.Hinchcliffe: 'Highbury New Park. A nineteenth-century middle-class suburb': London: 1981-: 29-44).

Listing NGR: TQ3236185428