Clissold House

Clissold House is a lovely Grecian Doric villa of the 1790’s, in Clissold Park, one of London’s most heavily used public parks.

The house was derelict apart from a café in one of the rooms. With the assistance of Heritage Lottery funding, the house has been restored, made fully accessible
and converted to house a wide range of community and function uses, including an enlarged and improved café that now opens to the park on two levels.

The immediate setting of the building has been transformed by new landscaping, as part of the wider improvements to the surrounding park.

  • Location: Hackney, London

    Client: London Borough of Hackney

    Listed: Grade II*

    Original Architect: Joseph Woods

  • Date of construction: 1793

    Date of project completion: 2011

  • RIBA London Award Shortlist 2012

    Hackney Design Award 2012