Lost Street

[PhilipG]

Sorry, it does no such thing - no mention of cellars - these are the lower floors (originally above ground) of buildings which are now within the basement levels of the present buildings on the site.

If we're going to be pedantic, it doesn't say the lower floors were above ground.
Floors don't get any lower than cellars.
The point I was making was that it is not, and was not, a buried street.
You, yourself, seem to think the lower floors were above ground.
They are now used as foundations for the present building, which led me to assume they were cellars, unless the present occupiers of the building have to walk up one or two flights of stairs to reach the 'ground' floor of the newer building.

The courts in Liverpool were built with cellars.
The maximum use of the site was obtained.
I'd be very surprised if this building in Edinburgh didn't have cellars.