“Madeline and her son, Henry, lived in a mews house in Eccleston Square, Pimlico” (The Ink Black Heart, Chapter 13).

Eccleston Square itself is very grand, lined on both sides with long terraces of large white houses built in the 1830s.

The houses in Eccleston Square Mews, however, like all mews houses in London, are converted from what were originally the coach houses and stables of the grand houses in Eccleston Square.

Like many mews, Eccleston Square Mews is a quiet, cobbled street with plenty of character.  When Strike enters the house, he goes upstairs to the living area, which would suggest that Madeline’s house still has space for a car downstairs, with the original carriage house doors, or that the carriage house has been converted to bedrooms. The rooms upstairs would originally have been living quarters for staff and servants.

You can find Eccleston Square Mews on the map below:

Eccleston Square is not too far from Kazan, where Strike and Madeline go for a date.