Numbers 57 and 59 and Attached Wall and Gate Piers to Highbury New Park
NUMBERS 57 AND 59 AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATE PIERS TO HIGHBURY NEW PARK, 57 AND 59, HIGHBURY NEW PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298743
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 57 and 59 and Attached Wall and Gate Piers to Highbury New Park
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 57 AND 59 AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATE PIERS TO HIGHBURY NEW PARK, 57 AND 59, HIGHBURY NEW PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298743
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 57 and 59 and Attached Wall and Gate Piers to Highbury New Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 57 AND 59 AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATE PIERS TO HIGHBURY NEW PARK, 57 AND 59, 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:
- NUMBERS 57 AND 59 AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATE PIERS TO HIGHBURY NEW PARK, 57 AND 59, 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 32376 85363
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3285SW HIGHBURY NEW PARK 635-1/39/468 (West side) Nos.57 AND 59 and attached wall and gate piers to Highbury New Park
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 and stucco or stone; roof of Welsh slate. Three storeys over basement, three windows each originally, no 59 extended by two-window range to right. Basement and ground floor stuccoed, the ground floor decorated with banded rustication; steps up to flat-arched entrance with cornice and overlight set back under flat-arched porch with rusticated antae and dentil cornice; ground-floor windows flat-arched with moulded reveals and window guards to no 57, balconies to no 59; first-floor windows round-arched and set back under round arches with imposts, stucco archivolt and gauged brick head, the red brick continuing as an impost band; bracketed and balustraded balcony; sill band to second floor of bricks set at an angle; second-floor windows basket-arched and grouped together as four with lintels of stone or stucco; eaves cornice of bricks set at an angle; boxed eaves; hipped roof and stacks to party wall. Additional basement and ground-floor wing of one-window range to left of no 57; two-storey wing to right of no 59 with canted bay of three windows to ground floor and a pair of round-arched windows above under a round-arch with imposts, archivolt and gauged brick head; openwork parapet. Two pairs of stuccoed and panelled gate piers with cornices and balustraded wall between, the balustrade missing to no 57 and one pier missing to no 59. (London Journal: T.F.M.Hinchcliffe: 'Highbury New Park. A nineteenth-century middle-class suburb': London: 1981-: 29-44).
Listing NGR: TQ3237485360
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368978
- 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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