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King Street runs along the north-western side of the Piazza, and it holds some of the best surviving early architecture in Covent Garden. Its frontages include Georgian and earlier townhouses that recall the square's origins as a fashionable residential development laid out to the design of Inigo Jones in the seventeenth century. The street's relationship to the Piazza is direct, and its buildings look onto the open square and the market building at its centre. Over the centuries King Street has held grand houses, and its architecture remains among the most dignified in the district. Today its ground floors carry restaurants, shops and offices, and the upper storeys retain the proportions and detail of their period. The street is busy with people moving between the Piazza and the streets to the west, and it shares in the general animation of the market quarter while keeping a more composed frontage than the lanes to the north. Its place on the north-western edge of the square ties it firmly to the Piazza and to the historic core of Covent Garden. King Street rewards a slower look at the buildings that trace the district's long history.
