Queen Street, Edinburgh

The first 30 metres beyond the road itself was originally laid out as private individual gardens to some of the Queen Street residents.

[1] Not until the opposite side was developed was there pressure to combine these gardens as a communal (but private) garden serving both Queen Street to the south and Heriot Row and Abercromby Place to the north.

[2] The street is planned as four terraces of equal length, originally all three storey and basement in form.

Building began at the east end in 1769, one of the first being No 8 which was designed for Baron Orde by Robert Adam, completed in 1771.

[3] The skew on the final two blocks at the west end (leading to North Charlotte Street and from there to Charlotte Square) result from an unresolved feuing argument with Lord Moray, who later built the Moray Estate on the land west of Queen Street.