Number 49 and Attached Wall and Gate Piers to Highbury New Park
NUMBER 49 AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATE PIERS TO HIGHBURY NEW PARK, 49, HIGHBURY NEW PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187385
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Number 49 and Attached Wall and Gate Piers to Highbury New Park
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 49 AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATE PIERS TO HIGHBURY NEW PARK, 49, HIGHBURY NEW PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187385
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Number 49 and Attached Wall and Gate Piers to Highbury New Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 49 AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATE PIERS TO HIGHBURY NEW PARK, 49, 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 49 AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATE PIERS TO HIGHBURY NEW PARK, 49, 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 32368 85295
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3285SW HIGHBURY NEW PARK 635-1/39/465 (North West side) No.49 and attached wall and gate piers to Highbury New Park
GV II
Detached house. 1856. Developed by Henry Rydon and designed by Charles Hambridge. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond with dressings of red brick, stucco and possibly also stone, tiles, roof of artificial slate. Three storeys over basement, three-window range. Steps up to round-arched entrance in recessed single-storey wing to left: cornice, overlight and panelled doors of original design; head of alternate red and yellow brick, embattled parapet of stone or stucco; there is a further single-storey wing of one-window range to the left, recessed, and having, like the porch, cast iron window guards. On the principal front the ground floor has red and yellow brick in bands of three courses up to an impost band of bricks set at an angle; round-arched windows with heads of red and yellow brick; bracketed bay window to the first floor with three round-arched windows, the heads of gauged red brick and the upper part of the bay generally corbelled out on imposts; bands of encaustic tiles above and below the windows; second-floor window round-arched with heads of gauged red brick under a shallow central gable, the eaves otherwise carried on a Lombard frieze except where interrupted by windows and side stacks; cornice of bricks set at an angle; hipped roof. Two pairs of stuccoed panelled gate piers with cornice, and balustraded wall between. This house matches no 47 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: TQ3236885295
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368975
- 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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