Queen's Gate Living
Petersham Place
Petersham Place runs from Petersham Lane to Gore Street. It is a through road which, despite its name, is a mews. It is very close to the shops in Gloucester Road. The mews is quite narrow but it is attractively cobbled. There are no trees.
The mews is entered through an arched entrance at the east end. The arch is a traditional round arch. There is a narrow passage after the arch which then opens into the mews itself.
It is exclusively residential. Houses are fairly uniform in appearance and they are generally 2 or 3 storeys high with basements. Most of the houses have painted facades. Some of the houses are covered with creepers or wisteria which gives an attractive and unusual rural appearance to the mews. Some of the houses have colourful window boxes or shady tubs of flowers lining the street outside, or balconettes with railings outside the first floor windows, often containing pretty flower displays. The mews has a very quiet and private atmosphere.
Petersham Place 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’
