A mews is a street or small area surrounded by houses that were originally built as stables.
[British]
The house is in a secluded mews.
...her London mews house
...his house in Stanhope Mews.
mews in British English
(mjuːz)
noun(functioning as singular or plural) mainly British
1.
a yard or street lined by buildings originally used as stables but now often converted into dwellings
2.
the buildings around a mews
3. informal
an individual residence in a mews
Word origin
C14: pl of mew3, originally referring to royal stables built on the site of hawks' mews at CharingCross in London
mews in American English
(mjuz)
plural noun
Chiefly British
a.
stables or carriage houses, now often converted into dwellings, grouped around a court or along an alley
b.
such an alley
Word origin
after the Mews, the royal stables in London, built on the site where royal hawks were mewed: see mew1
Examples of 'mews' in a sentence
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UPSIDE It's light for a mews house.
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We put in an offer for two of the mews buildings and it was accepted.
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She lives in a mews house at the bottom of the garden.
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Not only are mews homes getting bigger, they are getting lighter.
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You need 3 million for a mews house in this neighbourhood.
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Last week the mews house in Knightsbridge appeared empty.
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It's not a typical mews house at all.
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The house has a library, a sizeable garden and a tunnel linking it to a mews house.
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LIVING in a dinky little London mews house is a pretty universal fantasy.
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A pretty mews house with two bedrooms is about 300,000.
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We are sitting in his office in a mews house in West London.
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This sits on the roof of a mews house behind the property, in yet another example of Grosvenor flair.
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Owners can drive into the garage of their mews property, take a pleasant stroll through their garden and enter the main home with zero paparazzi camped outside.
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At that point they cut him off financially, although they allowed him to live at home in their mews house in west London.