[1] It forms a section of the B353 road and runs roughly parallel to the edge of Richmond Park.
Pesthouse Common, now an area of open space but previously the site of a plague house,[2] is located near the northern end of the street.
The street dates back until at least the eighteenth century, when it was a carriageway across common land in what was then largely rural Surrey.
[5] Some of the street's older buildings, including the Grade II-listed Richmond Gate Hotel, are at its southern end.
[6] The more modern social housing of the Queen's Road Estate was developed between 1971 and 1983 by the Richmond Parish Lands Charity and designed by the architects Darbourne & Darke.