Number 3 Including The Former Apple Store

This is an early 19th century former outbuilding and cottage, subsequently used as an apple store. The building is primarily constructed of Kentish ragstone with red brick dressings, although an inner wall facing the farmyard is of ironstone. It has a tiled roof, hipped at the street end, with an off-centre chimneystack. The two-storey cottage section has one late 19th century window with a cambered head on the ground floor. A side doorcase is cambered, featuring an original architrave and a 20th century door. The side elevation contains two blocked round-headed openings. Between 1823 and 1849, the farm was owned by Edward Biggs, an engineer who built one of the first traction engines in the 1840s on this site. Biggs quarried stone from Oldbury Hill, and, finding the cartage rates too high, built the traction engine to transport the stone and reduce his costs. Following his intervention, the cartage rates decreased, and the traction engine was never used.