Avenue Road dates from 1829.
Early in the nineteenth century, a plan for the development of the Eyre family’s estate was directed by John Shaw.
The southern section of Avenue Road was built to this plan in 1824 and the Hampstead section in 1829. The Swiss Cottage tavern was built at the apex of Finchley Road and Avenue Road by 1841.
New buildings included a school for the blind, built in 1848 at the southern junction of College Crescent and Avenue Road. Immediately to the south, a large house, Sunnyside - later St. Columba’s hospital - was built possibly in 1847. St. Paul’s church was built on the western side of Avenue Road in 1859.
J. T. Emmett designed the New College of Independent Dissenters’ Gothic chapel at the junction of Avenue Road and Adelaide Road.
