Brondesbury Mews and adjoining public lavatories, NW6 7RA

Ward: Kilburn

Date: 1874

Architect: Unknown

Style: Mews

Original use: Mews and workshops

Existing use: Garages and workshops

Description

Architectural significance – Main entrance arch and return in London stock

brick with redbrick string courses facing Willesden Lane. Decorative stucco

cornice, keystone and dressings a feature. Former toilet block right of

entrance. Carriage houses all feature double timber and glazed entrance

doors under exposed lintel. Former upper level entrance door and window at

first floor with brick arches picked-out. Brickwork now painted pastel colours.

Flat roof and simple parapet.

Conservation area: No

Significance score - 8

Authenticity: 2

Architectural: 2

Historical/archaeological: 2

Townscape: 2

Historic significance – A smithy is shown on the 1915 map of the area and it

is presumed that it served the coaches and industry within the mews. Many of

the properties within the mews still have their carriage house character and

appearance. Carriage houses for town properties could be small, utilitarian,

and only adequate to house one small carriage and basic living quarters above

for the staff who managed the horses and carriages.

Townscape significance –The interesting and tucked-away nature makes

these mews properties an attractive addition to the street. All form a group.

Authenticity – The mews properties retain their upper level door and window

apertures and timber carriageway double doors.

Sources: www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carriage_house