Thistle Court, completed around 1767 by John Young offers the earliest surviving buildings of the New Town. He received a subsidy from the Town Council of £20 premium when buying the first plot of land in the New Town. Interesting that these quaint, rubble built, houses in Thistle Court defied the intended plan for New Town terraces with wide open space and parks. This was more to the keeping of the Old Town design than New Town. Today this piece of history hides away in a court off a lane without even a plaque and most people will know nothing of it's significance to the Edinburgh we know of today, or even it's very existence.
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