Information about the location

o The park was once the grounds and garden of valence Manor House , now the borough's museum.

o Valence House served as the town hall until 1937, when the Dagenham Civic Centre was completed o Valance house museum, Heritage Study Centre and local library are all situated on the edge of the park on Becontree Avenue o In 1926, the LCC laid out 24 acres of the old Valence lands as a public park, two-thirds for informal recreation with open space, grass and some trees. o Various facilities were provided, a bandstand and formal planting, but the majority has now gone, including its open-air swimming pool, which closed in 1971. Facilities at the site include a children’s play area, four football pitches and a fishing lake o Valence House Museum is the only surviving manor house in Dagenham

The museum itself doesn’t look very interesting and is built to look exactly like a normal house so a lot of people wouldn’t know its there

The renewed design will be only for the exterior and it will be inspired from geometric shapes

My idea is to renew this old museum to make it more exciting but without destroying it since it will take away from its history