Lennox Gardens Mews runs north from Milner Street. It is cobbled and is quite exquisite. The overall impression is of a quiet village street. 

The west side is tree-lined with plenty of parking spaces for the residents. Some of the houses are painted and others are brick. There is a great mixture of styles. The northern end of the mews runs into Walton Street. It has the well known ‘Toto’s’ and also overlooks the old magistrates court which has now been turned into residential accommodation.

The houses are only on one side of the cobbled street which winds between Walton Street and Milner Street.  As with all mews properties, they have been heavily altered to form houses.

Generally they are two-storey houses with dormer windows in a mansard roof.  They appear to have been built with flat arches in brick above the ground and first floor windows, which gives a pleasant unifying effect to the houses as a group.

Lennox Gardens Mews was built behind Lennox Gardens on the Quail Field. This was the name given to several acres of land in the Walton Street area formerly occupied by Malcolm’s horticultural nursery. Malcolm’s executors surrendered the property to Smith’s Charity shortly after his death in 1836. The land was then let for a few years before the Charity was in a position to consider developing the land.

The building agreements for Lennox Gardens have been lost, so there is no clear record of their construction.   It seems that Smith’s Charity adopted a new policy towards house building.  In the past, they had designed, or approved the designs, for an area, and then entered into a contract with a builder to construct the houses.  But there was a growing tendency for prospective buyers to want to have a hand in the design of their proposed new house.  So the Charity began adopting the policy of selling or letting individual plots and allowing the prospective buyer to employ his own architect and builder.

W H Willis of Cromwell Road is recorded as having built six houses on the east side of Lennox Gardens. It is known that he also built the mews houses between 1883 and 1886.