The mews, once home to stables and stablehands providing services for the grander houses on the other side, fell into disrepair after WWII partly due to post-war austerity and, of course, the arrival of the motor car that removed the need for stables in the centre of London.
Although the northern side is lined by decently modest houses, with the stables mews behind, the later built southern side is grander and known as Cambridge Terrace, with set back entrances behind a strip of private gardens.
The area was first laid out just 200 years ago, in the first few decades of the 1800s, with the north side of Junction Mews built before the southern half arrived in the 1830s.
Since the 1980s, the mews has been slowly refurbished into the posh housing that it is today.
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