Houses in the Mews are much smaller than in the higher-class streets adjacent and were used as accommodation for servants and stabling for horses.

Later they were home to drivers and their vehicles, and from the mid-twentieth century were increasingly occupied by middle and upper-class families.

[1] The area was largely rural before the Gunter family began to develop it and the Mews lie on farmland formerly known as Four Acre Court Field and part of Great Courtfield.

The British Architect commented in 1886, with reference to houses in Collingham Gardens, with which the Mews were also associated, that the stables in Hesper Mews were "quite out of sight" of Collingham Gardens,[6] reflecting the need at the time for rich and poor to have "proximate but separate lives".

[8] Notable former residents include: Media related to Hesper Mews at Wikimedia Commons