41 and 43, Highbury New Park is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. Residential. 6 related planning applications.

41 and 43, Highbury New Park

WRENN ID
western-mantel-wagtail
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Islington
Constituency
Islington North MP: Jeremy Corbyn (YP)
Country
England
Type
Residential
OS grid reference
TQ 323 852
Coordinates
51.55065, -0.0928
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

These are a pair of semi-detached houses located on Highbury New Park, likely built between 1856 and 1861. They were developed by Henry Rydon and probably designed by Charles Hambridge. The houses are constructed of yellow brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with red brick and stucco dressings, and a slate roof. They are four storeys high with a basement, each featuring two windows.

The basement and ground floors are stuccoed, with the basement featuring banded rustication. Steps lead up to flat-arched entrances with cornices and overlights, flanked by panelled pilasters supporting an entablature with a guilloche frieze, cornice, and a blocking course with antefixae. The ground floor windows are also flat-arched. The first-floor windows have round arches with recessed, hollow-moulded stucco architraves and pointed-arched heads of alternating red and yellow brick. Red brick storey and impost bands are also present. A red brick sill band is visible on the second floor, resting on a course of bricks set at an angle. The second-floor windows are flat-arched, set in a recessed surround of red brick with heads of gauged red brick. The eaves cornice is made of bricks set at an angle, with boxed eaves.

The side returns each have a two-storey stuccoed bay to the basement and ground floor, mirroring the detailing of the front elevation. The roofs are hipped with side dormers, and there are stacks on the party wall and at the ends of the buildings. The design is similar to that of numbers 53-5 and 141-3 Highbury New Park.

Local climate

41 and 43, Highbury New Park sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 6 transactions since 2001
  • Related listed building consents — 6 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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