70, Highbury New Park

70 Highbury New Park is a detached house built between 1856 and 1861. It was developed by Henry Rydon and likely designed by Charles Hambridge. The house features yellow brick set in Flemish bond and stucco, topped with a roof of Welsh slate. It stands three storeys over a basement and has a five-window range, making it double-fronted.

Accessed by steps leading up to a flat-arched entrance, the entrance is sheltered by a single-storey prostyle porch. The porch has antae adorned with double rows of stylised palm leaves at the capitals, an entablature, a deep cornice, and a balustraded parapet above. On the ground floor, there is one window on either side of the entrance, both flat-arched and set in slightly projecting stuccoed bays with window guards. The engaged antae of these bays match those of the porch and feature a frieze panel with a Vitruvian scroll and a lion's head ornament.

Above, scrolled brackets support a balustraded balcony that serves the first-floor windows, which are round-arched and framed with moulded stucco architraves. The central window is flanked by fluted Corinthian pilasters and has a moulded stucco archivolt, with additional fluted brackets and lion's heads above. The pair of windows on either side also have fluted Corinthian pilasters and moulded stucco archivolts, all beneath a single cornice that features relief scrolled work in the spandrels.

A storey band separates the first and second floors, while the second-floor windows have segmental arches with stucco archivolts on fluted imposts, accompanied by a moulded stucco impost band. The house is finished with a moulded stucco cornice at the boxed eaves and a hipped roof that has side stacks with oversailing courses.