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Examples of mews
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Only London has the genuine mews, however, and they have never been more popular.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The larger houses had service mews running behind and parallel to their terraces.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Tucked down a cobbled mews, it is difficult to find but well worth the effort.
From the telegraph.co.uk
There are seven homes here built in a mews style around a paved courtyard.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
Mews were normally occupied by the horses and coaches with their staff living upstairs.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Surviving mews have inevitably become tourist attractions, with their own walking tours.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The Victorian three-story semi is being sold together with a mews house.
From the irishtimes.com
Call it breaking mews, if you will, from your dedicated Guardian Weekly team in London.
From the guardian.co.uk
Suddenly he can afford to buy books in hardback, take cabs and move into a bijou mews home.
From the bloomberg.com
- Street lined with buildings that were originally private stables but have been remodeled as dwellings; "she lives in a Chelsea mews"
- Mews is a chiefly British term formerly describing a row of stables, usually with carriage houses below and living quarters above, built around a paved yard or court, or along a street, behind large city houses, such as those of London, during the 17th and 18th centuries. ...
- Modified early warning score (MEWS) is a simple guide used by emergency medical services to quickly determine the risk of death of a subject. ...
- In falconry, a mews is a birdhouse designed to house one or more birds of prey.
- The Royal Mews is the mews (stables and in recent times also the garage) of the British Royal Family in London. They have occupied two main sites, formerly at Charing Cross, and since the 1820s at Buckingham Palace.
- An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place
- Mews are traditionally rows of former stables converted into residential properties. The ground floor stable area is generally a garage and the living quarters (which would have housed the ostler) are above.
- This word originally referred to stables built around a courtyard, but is now sometimes used to refer to a residential cul-de-sac. There are several streets in London with mews in the name, such as Huntsworth Mews, Chenies Mews, Barb Mews and Muncies Mews.
- Main living area for a falconer s bird.
