Barbican Living
The different types of houses in Lambert Jones Mews
On the mews side, there is an integral garage which takes up some of the ground floor of the house. Next to the garage, there is a separate entrance off the mews, and a study on the other side of that. At the back, is a bedroom and a combined shower room and WC.
The piece de resistance is the living room which is double height and has floor-to-ceiling windows onto the garden. There is also a garden door, so that the privileged inhabitants can stroll in the garden. On the first floor, there is a gallery round the double height living room, which contains a dining area, kitchen, two bedrooms, a bathroom and a separate WC.
Above that, there is access to a roof terrace. The roof terrace is quite small and is placed next to what looks like a brick garden shed larger than the terrace itself. (It has a concave roof and it must leak because the water collects there when it rains.) If the owners sat out, they would be gawped at by all the people going up the steps to Defoe House, so I don’t think the terraces are much used. They also have window boxes on the mews side, but strangely these all seem to be crammed with abandoned bushes in pots.
