Restoration
Clissold House, the former villa within the Park, is a Grade II listed building; the house serves as refreshment rooms and as an event location.
In 2007, Clissold Park was voted the Heart of Hackney, in an I Love Hackney Poll organised by Hackney Council. On March 30, 2007 the Heritage Lottery Fund announced the award of a development grant to put forward a bid for a full £4.5 million Park Restoration Grant. The work should restore the Park and House to its original 18th-century design.
Work on the Clissold Park and House Restoration Project commenced in January 2010, and over the next 2 years an estimated £8.9 million pounds was spent upgrading the historic Clissold house and its surrounding parkland. Funding was received from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Big Lottery Fund, and Hackney Council.
Plans for the park included:
- Restoring the Grade II listed Clissold House
- Restoring a section of the New River (England)
- Extensive maintenance to the two park lakes
- Renovating the current animal enclosures
- Creating a new play and wheels park area.
Clissold Park received a Green Flag award in July 2008.
Clissold House was added to the English Heritage 'Heritage at Risk Register' in 1991 but removed in 2012 following the completion of the restoration programme.
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