The main challenge of a mews development is working with a tight floorplate (in this case 4.5 x 14m) and the only windows being to the front façade. We therefore had to manipulate the plan and section to maximise the area whilst creating a feeling of
space, light and views.

A lightwell to the rear creates a shaft of light to the ground floor kitchen, with the addition of translucent windows to the rear bedroom and en-suite creating more light to the first floor. A rooflight positioned over the stairs, with a glass screen to the living space creates a feeling of openness to the ground floor. Whilst curved junctions to rooflights in the first floor bedrooms and bathrooms soften the overhead light and open up the sky views.

To the North of Hyde Park, Bathurst Mews was built in the late 1830s and is now one of the only mews in London to have working stables servicing Hyde Park. Working with Jones Lang LaSalle, the development looked to give a new lease of life to a dilapidated and underused mews house, which had a garage space to the ground floor and 2-bed flat above.