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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 02/07/2026 23:44:00

A 1930s convent in the gardens of a Georgian villa now hosts folk gigs, community cinema and chess club. Mycenae House at 90 Mycenae Road in Westcombe Park, between Blackheath and Greenwich, was built as a purpose-made novitiate house for the Little Sisters of the Assumption - blessed in 1931, opened in 1933 - on land beside Woodlands, the villa of Lloyd's co-founder John Julius Angerstein, which the Catholic order had bought after the First World War. When the sisters left for Paddington in 19...