Ashland Homes for Sale

Living in Ashland

Ashland sits in the southern corner of Cherry Hill Township, gathered around Burnt Mill Road and the PATCO tracks where the township meets Voorhees. The addresses run along Carolina Avenue, Palmwood Avenue, Philmar Avenue, Hurff Avenue, Kassner Avenue, Railroad Boulevard, Ashland Avenue, Eleanor Terrace and a set of plainly numbered streets — First through Fifth. The Cooper River and its woods close off the western side.

The name is the first thing to sort out, because the MLS files this one pocket under three different subdivision names: Ashland, Ashland Terrace and Ashland Village. They are not three neighborhoods. Carolina Avenue alone carries houses filed under two of the three, sometimes a few doors apart. A buyer searching one name on a portal sees a fraction of what is actually for sale here, and a seller listed under the wrong one of the three gets seen by a fraction of the buyers. This page pulls all three.

Then the street layout, which explains everything else. Ashland was built around a train station, and the station is still running — PATCO's Ashland stop sits at the foot of the neighborhood with a direct run into Center City Philadelphia. A Railroad Boulevard and numbered avenues are what a rail village looks like, and nothing else in Cherry Hill is laid out this way. The rest of the township was drawn for cars a generation later. If walking to the train matters, this is the only address in Cherry Hill that offers it.

The housing runs older and more varied than the township norm as a result. Houses here date back to the 1920s, and the mix moves through Cape Cods, bi-levels, raised ranches and ranch and rambler plans, with a distinctly later pocket of colonials and bi-levels from the late eighties on Ashland Avenue and Eleanor Terrace. Three bedrooms is the common shape and four turns up in the larger models. Full basements are standard, detached garages are more common here than anywhere newer in Cherry Hill, and lots run to the tidy rectangles of a pre-war plan — sixty by a hundred and twenty-five is typical. Natural gas, public water and public sewer throughout. For anyone working the lower end of the Cherry Hill market, this is one of the few places in the township where that search returns detached houses.

Schools are Cherry Hill Township Public Schools, with Cherry Hill High School East as the high school. Evesham Road and Burnt Mill Road put Route 70, Route 73 and the Turnpike within a few minutes, and I-295 is close enough that a lot of buyers here never touch the train at all. Buyers shopping this vintage in 08003 generally also walk Apple Hill and Kingston in the same weekend. The recently sold homes across the township are the clearest read on where a pocket this old actually prices.