Description
Now sited in a suburban front garden is a small pond surviving from the former C18th landscape gardens around The Clock House, a large house built in c.1735 for a Dutch merchant, Sir Jacob Jacobson. Coe's survey map of 1822 shows a tree-lined approach avenue following the present outline of Woodside Park Avenue and a small pond to the east, close to the site of a larger canal, which may also partially survive on common land adjoining Whipps Cross Roundabout. The Clock House, so called because it originally had a large clock in front of the stables, was largely rebuilt in the early C19th. It had various owners over the years, and was at one time used by the Salvation Army. A listed building, it still stands on Wood Street and has now converted into flats.
Practical Information
| Previously known as | The Clock House |
|---|---|
| Site location | 39 Woodside Park Avenue |
| Postcode | E17 |
| What3Words | ///leads.rapid.term |
| Type of Site | Garden Feature Remnants |
| Borough | Waltham Forest |
| Open to Public | No |
| Opening Times | private/no access |
| Public Transport | Rail: Wood Street |
| Research Updated | 1 November 2003 |
| Last Updated | 18 October 2026 |
Further Information
| Grid Reference | TQ387890 |
|---|---|
| Site Ownership | private |
| Dates | C18th; C20th |
| Listed Structures | LBII: Clock House (Wood Street) |
| On National Heritage List for England (NHLE), Parks & Gardens | No |
| Registered common or village green on Commons Registration Act 1965 | No |
| Protected under London Squares Preservation Act 1931 | No |
| Local Authority | Waltham Forest |
| In Conservation Area | No |
| Tree Preservation Order | No |
| Nature Conservation Area | No |
| Green Belt | No |
| Metropolitan Open Land | No |
| Special Policy Area | No |
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Nearby parks and gardens
St Peter-in-the-Forest is one of a number of 'daughter' churches to St Mary Walthamstow founded in 1840 in recognition that parts of the growing parish lay over 2.5 miles from the parish church. It was sited strategically on the fringe of the busy Wood Street area and serves an area known as 'The Forest'. The yellow brick church is in Italianate Romanesque style and, surrounded by its churchyard, is approached from Epping Forest abutting common land. Now closed for burials, the graveyard has numerous headstones in a natural, semi-wild setting with mature trees including oak, horse chestnut, yew and holly. In spring some of the tombs are literally covered with snowdrops.
Knotts Green was a hamlet along the route between Snaresbrook and Leyton, previously called Low Leyton. The area was rural until it was developed in the C20th. The Green has long remained public open space and today, somewhat encroached, it consists of a strip of grass and some trees. A former resident of the hamlet in the 1880s was Mr Gurney Barclay whose gardens and grounds here were admired and were famous for the observatory he built.
Monoux Almshouses date from 1527 and were established by Sir George Monoux adjacent to St Mary Walthamstow, together with a school for boys. The almshouses have gardens at the front and back, although the boundary with the adjacent churchyard today is ill-defined.
