Property Description
Devonshire Place Mews is a through road between Devonshire Street and Marylebone High Street in Westminster directly opposite Dunstable Mews, another original/ surviving Mews. The Mews contains 16 properties used for residential purposes.
Between October 1940 and June 1941, a high explosive bomb is recorded falling onto the central section of Harley Street, not far from the Mews. The area was noted as being fairly comfortable with good, ordinary household earnings when the London Poverty Maps were first published.
Devonshire Place Mews is situated to the north of the Harley Street Conservation Area in Westminster. First designated in 1968, the area is now dominated by terraced houses of different periods and different levels of social status. It retains a substantial medical presence, whilst offices predominate to the eastern edges.
The two storey properties are a mixture of plain and painted brickwork with mansard roofs and a tarmacadam road surface.
Everchanging Nature
The original purpose of the Mews was stable accommodation for the main houses on Devonshire Place, but they are now all used residentially. There have been a few planning applications made since 2003, mainly roof extensions and changes to the fenestration. Conservation Area controls now apply to any new development in the Mews.