It connects High Street and The Cross, in the east, and Dunkeld Cathedral, in the west.

According to Parliamentary Papers of 1956, "these houses form a picturesque group on the approach to Dunkeld Cathedral and are of great interest as an example of street architecture of the early 18th century".

[3] Fourteen properties on the street are now Category B listed buildings or structures, including the gates to the cathedral.

Number 9, meanwhile, was formerly the home of Alexander Mackenzie (1822–1892), the first Liberal Prime Minister of Canada, who was born in Logierait.

The monks of the Culdee Monastery, which formerly stood on the site of today's cathedral, in various forms, between the 6th and 13th centuries,[8] brought supplies up the street from the adjacent River Tay via the perpendicular Water Wynd that still exists today.