Peter Barber Architects has completed a terrace of mews houses in north London, which are arranged along a cobbled lane and feature oriel windows that cantilever out from their reclaimed-brick facades.

The owner of the site, a local developer called Roberto Caravona, asked Barber's studio to help him gain planning permission to replace a block of derelict workshops and a patch of scrubland with a row of homes located close to Finsbury Park.
Caravona had seen a previous application drawn up by a different architect rejected because of overlooking issues with the neighbouring houses, so knew what sort of issues the new proposal had to overcome.

The studio developed a strategy for achieving the same number of units on the site as the previous application by continuing the existing mews with a row of two-storey houses. By replacing the derelict two-storey workshop building with a terrace of courtyard houses that alternate between two and one-and-a-half storeys, the outlook from the neighbouring Victorian houses is actually improved.
"We were able to introduce some of the mechanisms we've developed and evolved over the last few decades, including the notched terrace typology with courtyards that help to reduce the overall massing," project architect Phil Hamilton told Dezeen.
"By consulting with the neighbours and taking on board their previous concerns, we managed to develop a solution that was acceptable to them and made the application process much smoother.&...