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 1967, local historian Cyril Fry persuaded Greenwich Council to buy the estate and save it from developers; the novitiate became the Kidbrooke House Community Centre in 1968, inheriting the name of a demolished predecessor that made way for the Sun in the Sands roundabout. In 1994 management passed to the Vanbrugh Community Association, a registered charity, and the building took its current name from its road. Today the house runs 23 flexible spaces for hire - from rooms for three to a main hall for 120 - plus a cafe-bar, and the programme is genuinely village-scale London: live music and comedy nights, community cinema, children's classes, political hustings, and long-resident societies from the Blackheath Scientific Society and Woolwich Photographic Society to Charlton Chess Club and the Woodcraft Folk. The Reach Out programme supports vulnerable local residents, and the surrounding Mycenae Gardens - public open space with the Steiner school in Angerstein's old villa next door - give the whole site its secluded, green character. The setting rewards a wander before or after an event. Woodlands, the 1774 villa John Julius Angerstein built as his country retreat, still stands next door - his art collection later formed the founding nucleus of the National Gallery - and the walled gardens the sisters once tended survive as Mycenae Gardens, a quiet pocket of green between the Victorian streets. Westcombe Park station is five minutes on foot, putting the house fifteen minutes from central London yet firmly inside its own village atmosphere.

Type: Theater / Concert Hall

Address: 90 Mycenae Road, London, United Kingdom, SE3 7SE

Website: https://mycenaehouse.co.uk

Capacity: 120

Serves Food