Originally the stable house accommodation for the main houses on Stoneleigh Street, the primary purpose of the Mews properties is now residential. When the London Poverty Maps were published in the late nineteenth century, the area was noted as having a mixture of normal living conditions and lower than the average household salary.
During the Second World War, a high explosive bomb fell onto Treadgold Street, north-east of the mews.
The 1987 film ‘Withnail & I’ used Ansleigh Place as a filming location.
