Looking south along Upper Street

According to Dent’s 1805/6 Survey of Islington, in addition to Dr Pitcairn's estate Wilson also owned 9 houses in Upper Street between Barnsbury Street and Terrett’s Place (as well as one in Terrett’s Place itself), which included those either side of a secondary access to Dr Pitcairn’s garden depicted in Shepherd’s watercolour of 1841, that became the access to Waterloo Terrace. Wilson leased “three cottages and two rooms over a gateway” in 1799, reserving a right of way through the yard to his garden. The Royal Mail public house (now Hoxley & Porter) was one of these, and its footprint extended into the area that became Bouton Place, which it still does.