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Avenue Road, ST. ALBANS, AL1 3EH

Buildings on Avenue Road. Cadoxton Place, on the left, is a distinctive house built in the late 19th Century, originally named St Raphael's. Until 2010 this was a home for the blind; it has since been subdivided into flats and renamed. St Raphaels Court, on the right, was built in the 1980s to provide additional accommodation for the home, but is now in general residential use.

A large Victorian mansion in Avenue Road, originally named St Raphael's, which from 1932 to 2010 served as a care home for blind and partially sighted people, run by the St John's Guild. It has since been subdivided into flats and renamed. The building is locally listed.

Pair of late Victorian semi-detached cottages in Sandpit Lane.

c1970s apartment block on Avenue Road.

Highclere Court is a block of 9 flats built in the late 20th Century replacing a previous Edwardian house, 27 Avenue Road. Beyond, with the turret, is Cadoxton Place, a distinctive house built in the late 19th Century, originally named St Raphael's. Until 2010 this was a home for the blind; it has since been subdivided into flats and renamed.

Housing in the mainly late 19th/early 20th Century development of "Sandridge New Town", an area of land between Sandpit Lane and Sandridge Road, originally outside the boundaries of St Albans and in the parish of Sandridge, prior to the extension of the municipal area in 1879, just south of where Boundary Road was laid out. These were the earliest houses in the road, shown on the 1898 1:2,500 map, the rest of the houses on this side of the road being built later on the site of St Peter's Brickworks, which operated from the area between Heath Road and Walton Street from 1882 to 1899 and which produced many of the bricks used for the early development of the neighbouring roads. Note the terracotta detail above the pair of doors, a feature which distinguishes this short terrace from those in the rest of the road, even though the general design is otherwise similar (see Image, for example). A similar feature appears on their immediate neighbours in Sandpit Lane - see Image

c1970s apartment block on Avenue Road.

Turn of the 19th/20th Centuries house on Avenue Road.

Late Victorian terraced cottages. Prior to the development of this area it was outside the St Albans boundary, and was instead part of Sandridge. The area was absorbed into St Albans when the city boundaries were extended in 1879, but when developed was still known as Sandridge New Town. All the cottages are locally listed.