Number 31 and Walls and Gate Piers to Highbury New Park
NUMBER 31 AND WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO HIGHBURY NEW PARK, 31, HIGHBURY NEW PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187277
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Number 31 and Walls and Gate Piers to Highbury New Park
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 31 AND WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO HIGHBURY NEW PARK, 31, HIGHBURY NEW PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187277
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Number 31 and Walls and Gate Piers to Highbury New Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 31 AND WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO HIGHBURY NEW PARK, 31, HIGHBURY NEW PARK
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 31 AND WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO HIGHBURY NEW PARK, 31, HIGHBURY NEW PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Islington (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 32256 85212
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3285SW HIGHBURY NEW PARK 635-1/39/461 (North West side) No.31 and walls and gate piers to Highbury New Park
GV II
Detached house. 1852-5. Developed by Henry Rydon. Yellow brick covered with stucco except to basement, roof obscured by parapet. Two storeys over basement, four-window range. The principal front reads as a pedimented wing of three-window range with a wing of one-window range set back to the left. Steps up to round-arched entrance in left-hand bay of pedimented wing, with moulded architrave and scrolled keystone; entrance flanked by rusticated piers capped by paired enriched consoles carrying cornice with pulvinated bay-leaf frieze between. Ground-floor windows flat-arched and set behind round-arched openings with moulded stucco architraves; storey band; first-floor windows flat-arched with architraves; the side wing has a segmental-arched carriage entrance to ground floor/basement, and round-arched window above; balustraded parapet; moulded stucco cornice overall; pedimented gable to three right-hand bays with acroteria, the tympanum filled with a wreath and festoons over a blank panel. Two pairs of stuccoed gate piers to left and right with bracketed cornices and ball finials; short run of balustrading to outer sides, the stuccoed inner wall no longer balustraded. (London Journal: T.F.M.Hinchcliffe: 'Highbury New Park. A nineteenth-century middle-class suburb': London: 1981-: 29-44).
Listing NGR: TQ3225685212
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368971
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hinchcliffe, T F M, Highbury New Park A Nineteenth century Middle class suburb, (1981), 29-44
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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