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53 and 55, Highbury New Park

A Grade II Listed Building in Islington, London

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Latitude: 51.5514 / 51°33'4"N

Longitude: -0.0921 / 0°5'31"W

OS Eastings: 532379

OS Northings: 185335

OS Grid: TQ323853

Mapcode National: GBR GJ.ZC8

Mapcode Global: VHGQT.C85K

Plus Code: 9C3XHW25+H5

Entry Name: 53 and 55, Highbury New Park

Listing Date: 30 September 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1298034

English Heritage Legacy ID: 368977

ID on this website: 101298034

Location: Canonbury, Islington, London, N5

County: London

District: Islington

Electoral Ward/Division: Mildmay

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Islington

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St Augustine Highbury

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description



ISLINGTON

TQ3285SW HIGHBURY NEW PARK
635-1/39/467 (North West side)
Nos.53 AND 55

GV II

Semi-detached houses. 1856. Developed by Henry Rydon and
probably designed by Charles Hambridge. Yellow brick with
dressings of red brick and stucco, roof of Welsh and
artificial slate. Three storeys, two windows each, no. 55
extended to the right with basement and ground-floor wing of
three-window range. Basement and ground floor stuccoed and
projecting slightly across the principal front of both houses.
Basement decorated with banded rustication. Ground floor with
round-arched entrance set back under flat-arched porch, the
entrance having pilasters, sidelights, cornice, fanlight and
panelled door of original design; ground-floor windows
flat-arched, these and porch openings divided by panelled
pilasters carrying entablature with guilloche ornament to the
frieze, and blocking course. First-floor windows round-arched
with hollow-moulded recessed architraves under pointed-arched
heads, now stuccoed; courses of red brick between first-floor
windows; sill band to second floor of bricks set at an angle;
second-floor windows flat-arched in recessed surrounds of red
brick with heads of gauged red brick; eaves cornice of bricks
set at an angle; hipped roof; stacks to party walls and end
stacks. These houses match nos 41-43 and 141-43 Highbury New
Park (q.v.) in design.
(London Journal: T.F.M.Hinchcliffe: 'Highbury New Park. A
nineteenth-century middle-class suburb': London: 1981-:
29-44).


Listing NGR: TQ3237485339

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