 Houses in Hesper Mews | |
  Hesper Mews within the borough of Kensington and Chelsea | |
| Part of | Gunter Estate |
|---|---|
| Type | Mews street |
| Location | Earl's Court, London |
| Postal code | SW5 |
| Coordinates | 51°29′30″N 0°11′24″W / 51.4916°N 0.1901°W |
| Construction | |
| Construction start | 1884-85 |
Hesper Mews is a mews street in the Earl's Court district of London, England. It runs between Bramham Gardens and Collingham Gardens and was laid-out in 1884-85 as part of the Gunter Estate, developed in the nineteenth century by James Gunter and his descendants.
Houses in the Mews are much smaller than in the higher-class streets adjacent and were used as accommodation for servants and stabling for horses. Later they were home to drivers and their vehicles, and from the mid-twentieth century were increasingly occupied by middle and upper-class families.