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Pond House is a Grade II* late Georgian detached villa overlooking historic Clapton Pond, which dates from the 1600s. The pond was re-landscaped for public use in the late 1800s to the pattern that largely survives today. At the time that Pond House was built, Clapton was a fashionable semi-rural suburb of London and Lower Clapton Road was lined with detached villas. Built in the Greek Revival style c. 1800, for Benjamin Walsh, a city stockbroker and son of a governor of the Bank of England (see The Hackney Society - SPACES no.45).