Knightsbridge Living
Clabon Mews
Clabon Mews is a mews that crosses Milner Street which also has north and south access into Cadogan Square. The houses are a mixture of two- and three-storey mews houses; some are entirely brick-faced and some are painted. The mews road surface is unusual in that it is mainly tarmac but there is a small cobbled strip on either side, just in front of the houses. Particularly unusual and very different in style from the normal mews style, is No. 30 on the east side which has a gabled roof. There is also a delightful hidden cottage at the northern end of the mews. There is a great variety of style in the street with some houses having bow windows and small roof gardens. Many have potted shrubs in front.
This is a wide mews street with a collection of genuine period properties and modern houses, all mixed together. They are all two-storey properties, but most have an additional storey in a dormer roof set back from the main wall. Many of the houses have Dutch gables. Many have doors framed by pilasters and pediments, all different. They are in such different styles that the new do not particularly clash with the old. But there are one or two new ones.
For such valuable houses, it is hard to understand why so many owners have put in the most ghastly cheap and inappropriate garage doors. The only ones that look decent are the old stable doors, but I suppose there is the convenience of not having to get out of your car to open them.
There is a three foot brick-surfaced area in front of the houses on which most people have put plant pots, which dramatically improves the overall impression.
