London’s Alleys: Hyde Park Gardens Mews, W2

This is one a classic of the posh mews style prevalent in parts of London as former cheap stables near Hyde Park were turned into expensive homes.The area was still all fields to the north of Hyde Park in 1800, but was earmarked for grand property development. Rather than rows of houses and stables, an ornate crescent of buildings was planned – a circus similar to those at Bath and the Regents Park. This was part of the Tyburnia estate development in the 1820s to a design by Samuel Pepys C