Property Description
Westbourne Park Mews is a private cul-de-sac off Westbourne Gardens in Westminster. Not much is known about the Mews as it is gated and no access to the general public is permitted. 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.
In World War II, a high explosive bomb fell directly onto Westbourne Park Road, north of the Mews. When the London Poverty Maps were published, the area was described as having a mixture of fairly poor households and ones in the middle-class bracket.
Westbourne Park Mews is part of Westminster City Council’s Westbourne Conservation Area. The area was transformed from a hamlet with fields in cultivation to a metropolitan suburb in the space of about 15 years, starting in the early 1840s. The houses in Westbourne were mainly built for prosperous professionals, explaining why there are only a handful of Mews spaces, though where these occur they have significant townscape value and historic interest.