70, Highbury New Park

ISLINGTON

TQ3285SW HIGHBURY NEW PARK 635-1/39/474 (East side) No.70

GV II

Detached house. 1856-61. Developed by Henry Rydon and probably designed by Charles Hambridge. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, roof of Welsh slate. Three storeys over basement, five-window range, double- fronted. Steps up to flat-arched entrance under single-storey prostyle porch, the antae having double rows of stylised palm leaves to capitals, entablature, deep cornice and balustraded parapet above. One ground-floor window to either side, flat-arched and set in a slightly projecting stuccoed bay with window guards, engaged antae matching those of the porch, frieze panel with Vitruvian scroll and lion's head ornament, and scrolled brackets supporting a balustraded balcony to first-floor windows; which are round-arched with moulded stucco architraves; central window with fluted Corinthian pilasters and moulded stucco archivolt flanked by pilasters carrying fluted brackets with lion's heads over and a frieze with a panel of Vitruvian scroll and lion's head ornament; a pair of windows to either side with fluted Corinthian pilasters and moulded stucco archivolts, all set under a single cornice with relief scrolled work in the spandrels. Storey band between first and second floors. Second-floor windows have segmental arches with stucco archivolts on fluted imposts with moulded stucco impost band; moulded stucco cornice to boxed eaves; hipped roof with side stacks with oversailing courses. (London Journal: T.F.M.Hinchcliffe: 'Highbury New Park. A nineteenth-century middle-class suburb': London: 1981-: 29-44).

Listing NGR: TQ3242485297