Olde Springs Homes for Sale

Living in Olde Springs

Olde Springs sits in the 08034 section of Cherry Hill Township, north of Church Road on the wooded ground where the South Branch of the Pennsauken Creek runs down toward Route 73. The streets are Brookdale Drive, Crooked Lane, Fountain Court, Hillcroft Lane, Old Salem Road and Farmhouse Lane. It is a small neighborhood by Cherry Hill standards, no association and no gate, with the creek and its tree line forming the eastern boundary.

This is the top of the 08034 market, and the reason is size. The houses here run four and five bedrooms with bath counts that reach well past three, and square footage that climbs above 4,000 — substantially larger than anything the surrounding mid-century neighborhoods built. The lots match: wooded, generous, and in several cases backing directly onto the creek corridor rather than onto another house.

What makes Olde Springs unusual is how it got that way. The housing here spans roughly forty years, from the late 1950s into the late 1990s, on the same handful of streets. Most Cherry Hill neighborhoods went up inside a three- or four-year window and look like it. This one did not — a 1957 traditional sits near a 1998 contemporary, with a 1971 colonial and a 1987 colonial contemporary in between. The ground was clearly parcelled out and built on as lots came available over decades, which is why the forms have nothing in common with each other.

The practical read on that is worth stating plainly. Several of these houses have been significantly expanded over the years — one mid-century raised ranch here carries a bath count no builder in 1960 was putting in a house. So a buyer touring Olde Springs is not comparing a plan book; they are comparing individual houses, each of which has its own history of what was original and what was added. That is more work than shopping a uniform neighborhood like Old Orchard, and it is also where the value is, because the range between houses is wide.

Schools are Cherry Hill Township Public Schools, and the listings here carry Cherry Hill High School West. Location is a genuine strength — Church Road and Old Kings Highway put you at the Route 70, Route 38 and Route 73 interchanges within minutes, which is about as connected as this township gets, while the neighborhood itself sits back in the trees off the main roads. Buyers who want this kind of ground elsewhere in Cherry Hill generally end up looking at the larger-acreage listings across the township, and several lots here carry pools that the pool home searches will surface.

One thing to keep straight if you are searching by street. Crooked Lane runs a long way west of this neighborhood, well past its boundary, so a street-name search pulls houses that are not in Olde Springs at all — and the Kings Croft condominium community sits just west off Church Road, a completely different product in the same general direction. Ask about the neighborhood, not the road. The recently sold homes across the township are the clearest read on where this tier actually settles.