53 AND 55, HIGHBURY NEW PARK
53 AND 55, HIGHBURY NEW PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298034
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 53 AND 55, HIGHBURY NEW PARK
- Statutory Address:
- 53 AND 55, HIGHBURY NEW PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298034
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 53 AND 55, HIGHBURY NEW PARK
- Statutory Address 1:
- 53 AND 55, 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.
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:
- 53 AND 55, 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 32379 85335
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368977
- 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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