Doughty Mews is a fine example of a quintessentially English typology. Its modest brick frontages, directly abutting the carriageway, were once stables that served the grand houses of Doughty Street. This dignified thoroughfare and its attendant mews exemplify a model of urban housing that rapidly came to define Georgian England, as it swept across the fields that separated the Cities of London and "Westminster. Since then, while more recent public housing and other developments have encroached upon it, the urban form and character of this part of Bloomsbury has retained its coherence. Current development remains piecemeal, infilling and densifying individual plots as they become available. However, social hierarchies have witnessed a far more significant shift and where the typical London mews might once have accommodated servants and iron-shod hooves, it now houses the creative, well-heeled metropolitan elite.
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