No one knows for certain how the 'Redcliffe' name came to be used for several streets on the Gunter Estate. This is really dredging the barrel for a derivation, but it is known that the Gunters’ surveyor, George Godwin, was involved in the restoration of a church called St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol, so it is assumed he picked the name.

Sometimes Corbett and McClymont took the leases of sites and did the building work themselves. Sometimes they arranged for other nominated builders to take over part of the work and to take the site leases. Redcliffe Mews was built between 1865-70 and James Gunter II, the owner, granted leases either to Corbett and McClymont or to nominees. Either as a nominee or as a sub-lessee, another builder, A M Greig, built some of the properties at the southern end.

Redcliffe Mews has two entrances both through very large arches. The mews is cobbled and consists mainly of three-storey modern mews houses. Many have built in garages and small balconettes at first floor level. Most of the houses are brick although some of the houses at the northern end are painted in a variety of attractive colours. The northern arched entrance has the date ‘1869’ painted at the top of the arch. The southern end has ‘1985’ painted on it.