Queen’s Gate Mews is a cobbled street which runs off Gloucester Road and Queen’s Gate Terrace. It consists of two sections: one part goes from west to east and the other part from north to south. The shops in Gloucester Road are particularly convenient.

It is mainly residential but with some commercial premises. There is also still a garage which sells vintage cars. (Apparently the mews had London’s first petrol pump just before the First World War.)

The mews is unusual in that it has a pub, the Queen’s Arms, just inside the entrance. There is a blue plaque to show that Sir Jacob Epstein, the sculptor, used to have his studio in this mews.

The houses come in many differing styles. They are a mixture of original and some post-War buildings. But there is a conformity of colour scheme, with a warm cream colour being the predominant impression. The houses seem to have larger windows than is usual in mews houses.

The houses are generally 2 or 3 storeys high. Some of the houses have facades which are stuccoed at ground floor level and bare brick at first floor level. Others are painted. Some of the houses are covered with creeper, which gives a rural and welcoming feel to the mews. Most of the houses have garages attached to them.

Queen's Gate Mews fell partly in the Harrington estate and partly (the Queen's Gate Terrace end) in land owned by the 1851 Commissioners. The purpose of the mews was to provide stabling for the coaches and horses and servants’ quarters for the main Queen’s Gate and Queen's Gate Terrace houses. (The ‘Gate’ part of the name came from the fact that a gate and lodge were built where Queen’s Gate met Hyde Park.)

Most of the northern extension of Queen’s Gate Mews was on land in the estate of the Earl of Harrington. The western extension was owned by the 1851 Commissioners. Where the two arms of the mews met, Jackson built the Queen’s Arms Pub. The site was on Commissioners land but they transferred the freehold to the Earl of Harrington, perhaps because they didn’t think it was appropriate for Royal Commissioners to be involved in pubs.

William Jackson who built most of the surrounding houses also built the stables and coach houses in this mews.