Olga's comment is correct, however the hawks buildings are no longer used for hawks, but the buildings and the narrow "cul de sacs" in which they were located remain, and later they were used by richer people to make luxury apartments, or for very wealthy people to keep their horses in. There are mews extensively all over England appearing as street names. Sometimes as building names. So in modern English a mews is most often understood as a "cut de sac" where usually rich people live, but this is not always the case. Some mews were occupied by workers or servants. A few are still occupied by ordinary people. Used to be used for Horses in recent times, originally used for Hawks in norman conquest times. Built by Normans to rear/bred/keep hunting Hawks. Now mostly occupied by the middle classes the higher middle classes or the wealthy, the later classes do have horses kept in these "mews" the mews refers to the entire street today and not a single building. One mews would have many old "hawks building" see picture "one mews street" many individual mews buildings. https://www.aladyinlondon.com/2018/06/london-mews.html Once a place of work now a place for the rich to live. The royal mews would have been a hawks mews in Norman times, later becoming ideal for keeping horses.

It really does have a lot of different meanings! Its most commonly used to refer to a place that used to be for horse stables.

Thank you for the reference Olga! :) I used this dictionary https://wooordhunt.ru/word/mews

You might like this reference from Longman dictionary: Origin: mews (1800-1900) mew “place where hawks are kept” ((14-20 centuries)), from French mue, from muer “to have the feathers fall out” And if I google images for bird mews I get the ones of large cages which you can find in a zoo. :) When I saw your question, I was curious too. In fact I see one or two meanings depending on the dictionary (I tried Longman, Cambridge, Oxford, Macmillan and some more)).