Regent Terrace

Regent Terrace is a residential street of 34 classical 3-bay townhouses built on the upper south side of Calton Hill in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland.

The front elevation features continuous cast-iron trellis balconies while each house has a porch with fluted attached Greek Doric columns.

[8] The western end of Regent Terrace was closed to traffic in 2001 because of security concerns about the United States Consulate.

[17][18][19] The widowed duchesse de Berry, sister in law of the Duke of Angoulême, also lived at what is now 12 (then 11) Regent Terrace at that time.

[19][20] Her young son, Henri, Count of Chambord grandson of Charles X and next in line after the Duke of Angoulême,[20] is said to have wept bitterly when his family left for Austria in 1832 as he had become very attached to Scotland.

[22] The influential Scottish minister and author the Reverend Dr. Maxwell Nicholson lived at 3 Regent Terrace for most of his later life until 1874.

[29] Sir George Dick-Lauder, 10th Baronet, an Indian Civil Service Administrator, lived at 16 Regent Terrace and died there in 1936.

[33] Sir Hew, brother of the Earl of Stair, Member of Parliament for Wigtownshire and Captain of the Royal Company of Archers, the King's Bodyguard for Scotland, lived there until he died in 1945.

[11] The author and mathematician Ann Katharine Mitchell, who worked at Bletchley Park during World War II on the German Enigma cypher machines,[36] lived for forty years at number 20 Regent Terrace.

[37] Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, composer, conductor and Master of the Queen's Music, lived at 13 Regent Terrace until 2000.