London’s Alleys: Portsea Mews, W2

This delightfully unmodernised mews, owned by the Church of England is just to the north of Hyde Park and is one of the last such mews left in London.The mews sits in a part of London known as the Hyde Park Estate, and it’s a large swathe of land owned by the Church Commissioners for England, the property arm of the Church of England.
Based on a Georgian model grid pattern, the Hyde Park Estate was initially developed in the 19th-century. It originally belonged to the Bishop of London befo