Property Description
Situated in East London in the Borough of Newham, is Sprowston Mews; a through road off Sprowston Road. The Mews contains 22 properties used for commercial purposes. It is located on the site of an original Mews but has been re-developed to a degree that it no longer contains any surviving Mews properties.
The Mews is not part of a Conservation Area. A high explosive bomb fell onto Clova Road, just north of the Mews in World War II.
The properties have plain brickwork facades surrounded by a tarmacadam road surface.
Everchanging Nature
The original purpose of the Mews was to provide stable/ coach house accommodation for the main houses on the surrounding streets and nowadays they are used primarily for commercial purposes.Before and since 2003 there have been a large amount of planning applications made for alterations to the properties within the Mews, the most notable being; the complete demolition of many properties and the erection of newer developments.