Stoke Newington, N16 

Stoke Newington N16, aka ‘Stokey’, is a vibrant north London suburb with a very distinctive village feel only four miles north-east of central London. The district is a popular family friendly area attracting young couples looking to move on from flats to larger houses. Stoke Newington’s grid unveils many leafy and quiet suburban streets lined with attractive terraced houses fronting tidy private gardens and leading to some excellent open green spaces and public outdoors.

Stoke Newington is part of Hackney Council and neighbours Highbury to the west, Dalston to the south, Hackney to the east and Woodberry Down to the north.

The village is home to Clissold Park, 50 acres of Victorian open green space which was rescued from developers and established as an open public park in 1889. Highlights include Clissold Mansion, a grade II listed building, and a large section of the New River. Abney Park is a wild, woodland space and an old Victorian cemetery nearby Stoke Newington Church Street.  West Reservoir Water Sports Centre covers a vast neighbouring area where locals indulge in canoeing, kayaking, and sailing and open water swimming. Famous people who lived in Stoke Newington include Edgar Allen Poe and Daniel Defoe.

The housing in Stoke Newington is predominantly Victorian with a small number of Georgian houses and limited stocks of brand-new homes. Desirable streets include Dumont Road, Clissold Crescent and Carysfort Road.  Northwold and Cazenove conservation area east of Stoke Newington High Street is often highlighted as one of the most attractive residential pockets in the district. ‘The area was built in a thirty year period between 1865 and 1895 on land owned by the Tyssen-Amhurst family. It is an excellent example of a late-Victorian residential estate built under the strict control of the ground landlord. Different builders were responsible for specific terraces or streets which resulted in a variety of different house types and designs, but with a uniformity that gives the whole area a distinct character and integrity. The almost universal building material is buff London stock brick, with painted architectural embellishments such as window architraves, cills, string courses, and eaves cornices and painted moulded capitals.’

New homes in Stoke Newington are scarce and usually part of boutique developments - infills between existing properties or warehouse conversions. Woodberry Down regeneration project overlooking the water reservoirs is the biggest new homes development along the north border of the district.

Residential developments

Woodberry Down

Kings Crescent

Transport

Stoke Newington station (travel Zone 2) runs London Overground services to Liverpool Street and Enfield.  The Underground network could be accessed from Seven Sisters station, which is linked to numerous buses running into central London and the neighbouring Dalston.

Bus 67 to Aldgate via Shoreditch; 73 to Oxford Circus; 76 & 243 to Waterloo; 106 to Whitechapel;149 to London Bridge; 476 to Euston via Islington.

Restaurants, Bars and Pubs

Buzzing Church Street is the main road with excellent cafes, restaurants, pubs, bars, clubs, indie and concept stores curating items from all over the world from homeware, clothing to fresh flowers and sumptuous cakes.

The Good Egg

Rasa

Aun

Rubedo

Escocoesa

The Clarence Tavern

The Rose & Crown

Ryan’s N16

The Three Crowns

The Auld Shillelagh

Council

Hackney

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