Number 3 Including the Former Apple Store is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 2000. Cottage, former apple store. 1 related planning application.
Number 3 Including the Former Apple Store
- WRENN ID
- sunken-bracket-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 2000
- Type
- Cottage, former apple store
- Address
- Number 3 Including the Former Apple Store, Rock Road, Borough Green, TN15 8RD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 606 571
- Coordinates
- 51.2908, 0.30324
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Number 3 Including the Former Apple Store receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings