1 and 2 Herbal Hill and 11 Ray Street

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TQ3182SW 635-1/73/449

ISLINGTON HERBAL HILL (South East side) Nos.1 AND 2

GV II

Includes: No.11 RAY STREET.

Two houses, now offices. c1804. Yellow stock brick set in Flemish bond with stone sills; gabled artificial slate roofs, brick end-wall stacks to Herbal Hill elevations. Three storeys (Ray Street elevation with raised basement); three-window range to Herbal Hill and two-window range to left-hand return wall in Ray Street.

Both entrances in Herbal Hill: no. 11 with C20 panelled door and plain reveals; no. 1 with C20 shopfront. Gauged-brick flat arches to 8/8 sashes (Ray Street elevation) and 6/6 sashes (Herbal Hill elevation). Brick string courses to Ray Street parapet, others with stone coping.

Stone plaque to left end of Ray Street elevation inscribed: 'This is the boundary of the Parish of St. Andrew, Holborn Eastwards and 18 feet from the Base of this wall is the boundary of the said Parish Northward 1804.'

Listing NGR: TQ3249283675