A mews is a street or small area surrounded by houses that were originally built as stables. The house is in a secluded mews. a small street or area surrounded by buildings in a city, where horses used to be kept, but where people now live (mew (14-20 centuries), from mue, from muer ). Row of stables and coach houses with living quarters above, built behind houses, especially in 17th-18th-century London. Most have been converted into modernized dwellings. The term originally referred to the royal stables in London, built where the king's hawks once stayed at molting ("mew") time
street lined with building that were originally private stables but have been remodeled as dwellings; "she lives in a Chelsea mews