London’s Alleys: Dean’s Mews, W1

This is a cobbled mews that sits between two grand linked buildings with a very impressive sculpture of the Madonna and Child hanging above the entrance.
Although the mews is original from when the area was first turned from fields into houses, all of the buildings you can see here, even the old looking buildings, all date from later redevelopment and post-war rebuilding works.The area was developed piecemeal from the 1710s onwards for Edward Harley, the 2nd Earl of Oxford who owned the farmland