Number 51 and Attached Wall and Gate Piers to Highbury New Park

NUMBER 51 AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATE PIERS TO HIGHBURY NEW PARK, 51, HIGHBURY NEW PARK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1187388
Date first listed:
30-Sept-1994
List Entry Name:
Number 51 and Attached Wall and Gate Piers to Highbury New Park
Statutory Address:
NUMBER 51 AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATE PIERS TO HIGHBURY NEW PARK, 51, HIGHBURY NEW PARK
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1187388
Date first listed:
30-Sept-1994
List Entry Name:
Number 51 and Attached Wall and Gate Piers to Highbury New Park
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBER 51 AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATE PIERS TO HIGHBURY NEW PARK, 51, 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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBER 51 AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATE PIERS TO HIGHBURY NEW PARK, 51, 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 32375 85311

Details

ISLINGTON

TQ3285SW HIGHBURY NEW PARK 635-1/39/466 (North West side) No.51 and attached wall and gate piers to Highbury New Park

GV II

Detached house. 1856. Developed by Henry Rydon and designed by Charles Hambridge. Brick covered with stucco, roof of Welsh slate. Three storeys over basement, two-window range. Steps up to flat-arched entrance in side porch with cornice and overlight, the entrance flanked by Ionic pilasters carrying entablature and panelled parapet. Ground floor decorated with banded rustication; flat-arched windows with moulded reveals; storey band; first-floor windows flat-arched with moulded stucco architraves, dentil cornice, and key pattern to apron; a recessed band of palmette ornament over windows; moulded string; third floor windows only to sides, below eaves; dentils to eaves cornice; hipped roof with side stacks. Two pairs of stuccoed panelled gate piers with cornices and balustraded wall between. This house matches no 45 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: TQ3237485311

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Legacy System number:
368976
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Sources

Books and journals
Hinchcliffe, T F M, Highbury New Park A Nineteenth century Middle class suburb, (1981), 29-44

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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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