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"You are in the right place if you need solicitors for mews property. Mews Living is Barretts Solicitors web site on mews. It's the most comprehensive guide to buying and selling in mews there is. Our service as property solicitors is equally comprehensive."
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Main information pages for Barretts Solicitors for mews property |
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Barretts Solicitors for comprehensive information on mews propertyBarretts Solicitors was set up in 1979. Our policy is to do one thing well. So we deal exclusively with property law. As solicitors, we handle the whole range of property matters for corporations and individuals, from leases of offices to buying and selling houses and flats. As solicitors, we have helped thousands of people to move home - many of them in mews. We know a great deal about property in London mews. 'Mews Living' is our own website - please have a look around. We tell you all about the history and architecture of mews, and there are photographs and descriptions of mews streets. If you need solicitors for mews you won't find more detailed information anywhere. We hope you are finding our Mews Living site interesting and that it will help you find the right house. Please call us if you are planning to buy a mews property and need solicitors to help you. We really can make a difference. |
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We provide a very personal serviceWe provide a personal service. Apart from dealing with the technical legal aspects of a transaction, which is the normal job of solicitors when you buy or sell mews property, we also play a big part in resolving the practical problems which arise in a transaction. If you would like to discuss using us as solicitors for your mews property transaction, please ring us. Tel: 020 7248 0551 |
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More information on different types of transactions.For more information on particular types of transactions and the service Barretts Solicitors can provide, these are the links to the relevant pages or sites |
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Barretts Solicitors for mews house salesClick here. On the main menu, click 'Selling' and choose from the sub-menu You will want to make sure everything goes smoothly. We can organise a Council search in advance and arrange for you to have all the necessary information the buyers will need, so you save time when a buyer is found. |
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Barretts Solicitors for mews house purchasesClick here. On the main menu, click 'Buying' and choose from the sub-menu When you are buying a mews house, you need to be sure that all necessary rights over adjoining properties are in place. We will check this for you. |
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Barretts Solicitors for mews leasehold enfranchisementClick here. On the main menu, click 'Living' and then 'Extend your flat'. Since 1993 many flat owners have had the 'right to buy' a longer lease term. This is important in mews because many leases were granted in the 1970 and 1980s and the terms are not quite short. If you exercise a right to buy you get an extra 90 years added to the end of your existing lease term. We are familiar with the rules and can look out for your interests. |
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More information on prime London areasBarretts Solicitors provide web sites - just as comprehensive as this one - on prime London areas. Our service as solicitors is equally as comprehensive. It is not necessary for the solicitor and the property to be in the same location. It’s a business conducted by phone, fax and e-mail. The solicitors on either side rarely meet. So it is as easy for us to deal with a property in any part of London (even Wales if that is where you want to buy!). |
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Barretts Solicitors guide to the BarbicanThe Barbican is a development of some 2000 flats in the City of London. This is an in-depth site with a huge amount of useful information, including floor plans of all the flats, and sections on how to narrow down your choice by criteria such as garden access, number of rooms, which way you want your living room to face. We even supply history of the area back to the Romans, and a history of concrete (which may be more than you need, but better more than less). |
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Barretts Solicitors guide to BelgraviaIn the 18th century Belgravia was just marshland. When George IV decided to make Buckingham Palace his home, way out on the edge of civilized London, the great and the good followed suit. The land was owned by the Grosvenor family and most of the development of Belgravia was carried out by Thomas Cubitt, one of the great Victorian speculative builders. Most of the grand stuccoed houses have been converted into flats. There are also many mews houses behind the main streets. |
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Barretts Solicitors guide to ChelseaChelsea is one of the oldest established residential areas of London - much older than mews which was still an area of isolated farms and nurseries in the 18th century. Thomas More lived in Chelsea in the 16th century and used to torture heretics in the back yard. Buying in Chelsea needn't be such a painful experience if you use us as your solicitors. |
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Barretts Solicitors guide to Chelsea HarbourIt was s a triumph of marketing to call it Chelsea Harbour since it's really in Fulham. But it's still a fabulous development with its own yacht basin. Many flats have great views over the river. Click here to go to Barretts Solicitors Chelsea Harbour website |
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Barretts Solicitors guide to Earls CourtEarls Court is not as popular as nearby South Ken, but it isn't as expensive either, and it has some very attractive houses and streets. |
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Barretts Solicitors guide to Holland ParkHolland Park as we know it today is the combination of two Victorian estates: the Holland estate and the Norland estate. The buildings are generally grander and the feel more exclusive, than neighbouring Notting Hill. Some of London's most expensive flats are found here. Click here to go to Barretts Solicitors Holland Park website |
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Barretts Solicitors guide to KensingtonThis is a modern corruption of ‘Cynesige’s farm'. Cynesige was a local Anglo-Saxon farmer whose name stuck. In fact, Kensington was just a sleepy village well out of London until the 18th century in the middle of farm land. the Industrial Revolution and London's population explosion in the Georgian period led to the area becoming developed and it truly caught on in the Victorian age when most of the grand streets of stuccoed houses were constructed for rich families. Here you will find some of the most expensive and sought-after property in the world. |
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Barretts Solicitors guide to KnightsbridgeSay 'Knightsbridge' and you'll think 'Harrods'. But Harrods is a relative newcomer, built towards the end of Victoria's reign. A large part of Knightsbridge is the Smith's Charity estate, more recently the Wellcome Trust estate. Knightsbridge contains everything from elegant Georgian houses by Basevi (Pelham Crescent) to red-brick blocks of flats (Cadogan Square). Click here to go to Barretts Solicitors Knightsbridge website |
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Barretts Solicitors guide to Mews properties.A mews was where hawks would moult or 'mew' Winter feathers. Henry VIII kept his hawks in 'The Mews' in Charing Cross. Although he replaced the mews with stables for his horses, it kept its name. In Victorian London mews were constructed behind the main streets for rich family's coach and horses. The the horses were on the ground floor, and the stable workers lived on the floor above, sometimes with their families. How surprised the Victorians would be to find their stables are now the sought-after residences of the well-to-do in all parts of prime London. |
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Barretts Solicitors guide to Notting HillEver since the film, Notting Hill has become a trendy place to live. It's more colourful than mews or Holland Park - literally because many of streets have lovely pastel coloured houses in a myriad of colours. it's also a lot edgier. Much of it is built on a Victorian race course - the Hippodrome. Click here to go to Barretts Solicitors Notting Hill website |
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Barretts Solicitors guide to QueensgateQueen's Gate was the by product of the Great Exhibition of 1851. A huge profit was made and Prince Albert conceived the idea of creating a museum area in mews, which resulted in the Science Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Natural History Museum. They planned to partly finance it by building houses in the surrounding area, they bought up the land, and Queen's Gate and surrounding streets was built. |
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Barretts Solicitors guide to Regents ParkRegent's Park was considered impossibly far from the centre of London to be a success as a property development when the idea was floated during the Napoleonic War. Much of it was designed by Nash under the patronage of the Prince Regent - hence the name - who later became George IV. The centre-piece, the Regents Canal, was meant to run through the middle but was diverted round the edge at the last minute so that the exclusive residents wouldn't have the common people gawking at them from barges. Regents Park fell into ruin after the First World War and, although it has been returned to its former glory many buildings had become so dilapidated, they had to be knocked down and rebuilt behind the facades. Click here to go to Barretts Solicitors Regents Park website
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Barretts Solicitors guide to South KensingtonWilliam of Orange moved his court to mews every winter to escape the unhealthy air of Whitehall. The ‘second coming’ for mews was the result of the building boom in London and the dramatic expansion of housing along the roads out of London which occurred in the 19th century. This produced the residential 'South Ken' we see today. Click here to go to Barretts Solicitors South Kensington website |
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Barretts Solicitors guide to WappingCargo couldn't be unloaded anywhere - the Crown had to get its tax. Ships had to unload at specified docks near the Tower of London. This was extended to Wapping, where bonded warehouses were built along the river front in the 19th century. As shipping grew in size the docks moved further out towards the sea. By the 1960s the Wapping docks were almost all closed. Fortunately the beauty of these derelict buildings was appreciated in the 1980s and Wapping has seen a renaissance as a highly desirable residential area. |
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