69 AND 71, HIGHBURY NEW PARK

69 AND 71, HIGHBURY NEW PARK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1279758
Date first listed:
30-Sept-1994
List Entry Name:
69 AND 71, HIGHBURY NEW PARK
Statutory Address:
69 AND 71, HIGHBURY NEW PARK
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1279758
Date first listed:
30-Sept-1994
List Entry Name:
69 AND 71, HIGHBURY NEW PARK
Statutory Address 1:
69 AND 71, HIGHBURY NEW PARK

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
69 AND 71, 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 32357 85449

Details

ISLINGTON

TQ3285SW HIGHBURY NEW PARK 635-1/39/473 (West side) Nos.69 AND 71

GV II

Semi-detached houses. 1856-61. Developed by Henry Rydon and probably designed by Charles Hambridge. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond with dressings of red brick, stone and probably stucco; roof of Welsh and artificial slate. Three storeys over basement, three windows each. Steps up to entrance with stilted pointed-segmental arch, cornice and overlight; the archivolt, which here and elsewhere could be of stone or stucco, is set in a panel of gauged red brick rising from a brick impost band which links the entrance to the two ground-floor windows which are detailed in the same way. Sill course of red brick to first-floor windows which are round-arched with foliage imposts, gauged brick head and flush archivolt with pointed extrados; the second floor has four linked windows with chamfered mullions of brick and wedge lintels probably of stone, the chamfer stop being in the stonework; brick dentils to boxed eaves; hipped roof with stacks to party wall and sides, those to the side truncated on no 69, those to no 71 with oversailing courses; no 71 has a basement and ground floor wing added to the right, probably also in C19, with canted bay to both storeys and stilted segmental-arched windows with foliage imposts to ground floor, probably of brick and stone but now stuccoed; parapet with trefoil ornament. Included for group value. (London Journal: T.F.M.Hinchcliffe: 'Highbury New Park. A nineteenth-century middle-class suburb': London: 1981-: 29-44).

Listing NGR: TQ3235885445

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Legacy System number:
368984
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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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