The College Park estate was
built by the Mercer's Company in the 1860s
and 1870s over the fields of a small farm
that the company administered as trustees
of a charity.
It was one of the most significant additions
to the number of middle class houses in Lewisham
during that building boom.
Clarendon Road (now Clarendon Rise) was the
main artery of the new estate. Maverston Lodge,
No.49 (now demolished), was built in the early
1870s.
