68, Highbury New Park

This is a detached house built in 1856-61, part of a development by Henry Rydon and likely designed by Charles Hambridge. It is constructed of yellow brick in a Flemish bond, with stucco detailing and a tile roof. The house is three storeys high with a basement, and has a five-window façade. A segmental-arched entrance, originally in a stucco porch, is now simplified with pilasters and a moulded cornice. Ground-floor windows are flat-arched and set in slightly projecting stuccoed bays, each with window guards and pilasters supporting a frieze featuring Vitruvian scroll and lion's head ornament. First-floor windows are round-arched, with moulded stucco architraves, and the central window is particularly elaborate with fluted Corinthian pilasters, a moulded stucco archivolt, and a frieze with similar scroll and lion's head ornament. A pair of windows flank the central one, also with Corinthian pilasters and moulded stucco archivolts, all set under a shared cornice with scrolled relief work in the spandrels. A storey band separates the first and second floors. Second-floor windows have segmental arches with stucco archivolts on fluted imposts, an impost band, and a moulded stucco cornice leading to boxed eaves. The roof is hipped with side chimneys that have oversailing courses.