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The mews lanes behind London’s main streets that once contained stables and outhouses now contain homes and shops. Here are 12 of the city’s most interesting modern mews houses. Primrose Hill Mews House by Threefold Architects, Primrose Hill Threefold Architects renovated this Victorian mews house in Primrose Hill to reinstate some of the building’s original details and reorganise its

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Cottrell and Vermeulen Architecture utilised “the materials of garages and sheds” to create a small two-storey house on Stories Mews in south London. The architecture studio replaced a 1970s double garage with a home that matches the adjoining properties in scale and materials as the latest stage of the development of a service lane into a

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Architecture studio KennedyTwaddle prioritised privacy in the construction of this pitched-roof housing development, which has been built on a awkward plot in Finchley, north London. The brownfield site was originally a timber yard, but up until recently had been host to a handful of severely neglected buildings and a disused two-storey office – all of which

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