Queen's Gate Living
Queens Gate Place Mews
Queen’s Gate Place Mews is a through road which runs from Queen’s Gate Place to Cromwell Road. It’s a cobbled road. It’s also unusually wide which gives the mews a particularly light and spacious feel. In fact, there is room for cars to be parked outside houses on both sides. There are small trees at the north end of the mews.
It is mainly residential but with some commercial premises still operating. The mews is entered through an impressive classical stone arch at the north end – so impressive in fact that it is ‘Grade II listed’. The arch leads immediately into the mews. There are smaller pedestrian entrances on either side of the main entrance, which is supported by two large columns. (A blue plaque next to it records that it was cleaned in 1978 with contributions to the “Brighten Up The Borough” Campaign Fund in the jubilee year of 1977.
Some of the houses are quite large as mews houses go. They are mainly a mixture of original and more modern houses and are all individual . The houses themselves are generally 2 or 3 storeys high without basements. Some are stuccoed and some have bare brick facades. Not all the houses have garages attached to them.
In the Summer there is a distinctly rural villagey look to the mews. Some of the houses have colourful window boxes. Others have balconettes with railings outside the first floor windows, often containing pretty flower displays.
