A short road from Hills Road to the railway station, once home to Foster's Mill, with CB1 offices at the eastern end.
Station Road runs from a traffic-light junction on Hills Road (the A1307) down to the railway station, in south-east Cambridge. Across Hills Road from the top of the street lies the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, and the Cambridge War Memorial stands near the same corner. The railway station at one end and a war memorial at the other are both Grade II listed, and the view between them is a leafy one.
The north side has a row of Victorian houses that have lost their gardens and been turned over to commercial use. The south side is mostly large modern buildings, among them Jupiter House, put up in 1974, and Daedalus House. From 2016 the CB1 estate redeveloped the eastern end, adding five big buildings with roughly 500,000 square feet of offices between them.
Foster's Mill, built in painted gault brick in 1898 to a design by Gelder and Kitchen of Hull, was one of the city's few examples of large-scale industry. The Foster family wanted rail links to their mills, but the university stopped them, so they built this one right beside the station. It passed to Pauls Agriculture in 1917 and to Spillers in 1947. A major fire broke out during demolition work on 27 March 2010, and the surviving part was to become 19 apartments.
Trains first served the station in 1845, once the Eastern Counties Railway line to Cambridge was complete. Its long classical front is Grade II listed, and the station has a single very long platform.
Sources: Wikipedia: Station Road · Wikidata: Station Road (Q7604287)
