Barbican Living
Description of Lambert Jones Mews
If you are killing time in the rather desolate forecourt below Lauderdale Tower, and you happen to glance over the parapet wall, you will be surprised to see a little row of mews houses below you. If only they had turf roofs and smoke rising from chimneys, you would think you had fallen into a Beatrix Potter story. This is Lambert Jones Mews (completed in February 1974).
There are 8 terraced houses (numbered 1 - 8), on three floors. The 'front' doors open onto the hidden mews road which leads out to the street. They have garages there, although I suspect a number have been unofficially converted into rooms.
The glory of Lambert Jones Mews is that they have back doors opening onto the Thomas More Garden - no other flats allow you to actually stroll out of your home straight into the garden. They also have windows running up two storeys so that even when sitting in your living room you can stare contentedly over the garden and watch out for our foxes.
I have to admit I look enviously in at their dramatic windows when I jog around the garden late at night.
