Station Road is a road in southeast

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. June 2004. It leads from a junction with

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Hills Road Hills Road is an arterial road (part of the A1307) in southeast Cambridge, England. It runs between Regent Street at the junction with Lensfield Road and Gonville Place (the A603) to the northwest and a roundabout by the Cambridge Biome ...

( A1307) to the

Cambridge railway station Cambridge railway station is the principal station serving the city of Cambridge, England. Situated at the end of Station Road, Cambridge, Station Road, it is south-east of the city centre. With over 10 million passengers passing through the ...

. At the western end of Station Road on the opposite side of Hills Road is the

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Buildings

The station and a

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at the two ends of the road are

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. The view along Station Road has a leafy appearance. There are a number of

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houses on the north side of the road. These have lost their gardens and been converted for commercial use. The south side of the road is main large modern buildings. For example, ''Jupiter House'' was built in 1974. It was reclad in the 1980s. ''Daedalus House'' is also located on the south side. In 2016 a major redevelopment of the eastern end of Station Road was undertaken by the CB1 estate. Five major buildings were constructed providing approximately 500,000 SQ FT of office space. 30 Station Road was the last of these buildings to be constructed, slated for completion in 2020.

Foster's Mill

''Foster's Mill'' (also known as ''Foster Mills'', ''Foster Mill'' and ''Spiller's Mill''), off Station Road, was built of painted

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brick in 1898, designed by the architects Gelder and Kitchen of

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. It is one of the largest buildings in Cambridge, as well as being one of the few examples of large-scale industry in the city. The Foster family owned three mills in the city but the

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prevented them from constructing railway lines to them, so they built this mill immediately next to the railway station. In 1917, Foster's Mill was sold to Pauls Agriculture and in 1947 it was sold to

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. Additions were made to the building in 1953. In 2000, it was owned by Rank Hovis. In 2001, it was announced that Rank Hovis would vacate the site eventually to enable redevelopment of the site. The Foster family also founded Fosters' Bank for use by their mill workers, with a site in Sidney Street in central Cambridge. The building (now a

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branch) was designed by the

architect

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and built 1890–93. The name still exists over the doorway. The interior of the bank is vaulted and highly decorated with tiles, On 27 March 2010, during extensive demolition work on the mill, a major fire "accidentally" broke out which damaged the mill buildings causing their partial collapse. The remaining section of the building will become 19 residential apartments as part of the CB1 development.

Demeter House

Demeter House, on Station Road, was built in the 1960s. It is one of three similar office blocks, the others being 20 Station Road (formerly Leda House), and Jupiter House. The building is currently one of the principal offices for

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Railway station

The railway station opened in 1845 when the

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opened to Cambridge. The station building has a long classical

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and

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, which was infilled during the 20th century. It has been attributed to both Sancton Wood and Francis Thompson and is listed Grade II. The single very long platform is typical of its period but now unusual in that, apart from a brief period in the mid-19th century, it was never supplemented by another through platform. There were major platform lengthenings and remodellings of the main building in 1863 and 1908. The station layout was altered in 1896 through changes to the Newmarket line approaches. Image:Cambridgefront.jpg,

and

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s at the eastern end of Station Road. Image:Cambridge station building2.JPG, General view of the entrance to the railway station at the end of Station Road. Image:Cambridge station entrance.JPG, Entrance to the railway station. Image:Cambridge station building.JPG, View of the railway station building.

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