Property Description

Headfort Place is a through road approached through an arch containing 59 properties between Chapel Street and Halkin Street in Westminster. The properties within the Mews are used for residential purposes.

A high explosive bomb fell onto Pembroke Close, north of the Mews between 1940 and 1941. When the London Poverty Maps were published, the area was determined as being fairly comfortable and having households with good ordinary earnings.

Part of Headfort Place is placed in Westminster City Council’s Belgravia Conservation Area; first designated in 1968, it was laid out as a fashionable residential area to the west of Buckingham Palace. There is a high degree of townscape uniformity and a formal layout based on a grid pattern. The area is predominantly residential with some shops on the edges. There are also a significant number of embassies, diplomatic buildings and institutional headquarters.

The Mews has two, three and four storey, plain and painted brickwork buildings with mansard and parapet roof styles. The garages vary between intact and converted and are surrounded by a tarmacadam road surface.

Everchanging Nature

The original purpose of the Mews was to provide stable/ coach house accommodation to the main houses on Grosvenor Place. Now, it is predominantly used for residential purposes.

A few planning applications have been made since 2003, notably the addition of a fourth floor to many of the properties and other internal alterations. Conservation Area controls now apply to new development in the Mews.