A street is a road with houses on either side. We use street for roads in towns, but not for country roads.

• Cars can park on both sides of our street

 
Roads used for both town and country.

• Cars can park on both sides of our road
  
• There's a narrow winding road from our village to the next one. (NOT . . . a narrow winding street . . .).
  

Note that, in street names, we stress the word Road, but the word before Street.

• Marylebone' Road.    
  
• 'Oxford Street.