Built around 1890, this house now serves as a private residence however in the early twentieth century it was run by Misses Annie and Ada Dale as a drapers, and from the 1950s until the end of the century it was owned by Eric Burdett the village baker.

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People came from far and wide to purchase "some proper bread" and it was a typically busy village store selling bakery produce, grocery, haberdashery etc, while also serving as a sub-post office until this service's relocation to Orsett Road, behind the Country Fayre store.