Queen's Gate Living
Petersham Mews
Petersham Mews gives the impression of being a warm and pleasant street to live in, with its Hansel and Gretel type cottages on either side of a surprisingly wide cobbled road. There are no trees and, in fact, cars can be parked outside houses on both sides and traffic can still get through.
Petersham Mews runs from Petersham Lane to Elvaston Mews and it is reasonably close to the shops in Gloucester Road.
One or two of the houses have had some unfortunate improvements. But generally these are nice cottages, tastefully converted, with appropriate windows and doors. The brickwork of most of the houses is painted.
The houses are modestly sized and are mainly original. Generally they are 2 or 3 storeys high. Most don’t have balconies and none have basements.
Most of the houses have garages attached to them. A surprising number have original stable doors with their distinctive broad iron hinges (or at least appropriately antique-looking wooden doors).
Some of the houses are covered with creeper or wisteria which gives an attractive and unusual rural appearance to the mews.
Petersham Mews forms part of the land owned by the Earl of Harrington.
In the early 1860s while building Elvaston Place, Aldin was also building Petersham Mews and Petersham Place which were designed as coach houses and stables. The name Petersham comes from the Harrington family. The eldest son of the current Earl was always a ‘Viscount Petersham’.
