The houses on the corner of High Street / Chestnut Road were built about 20 years ago on the site of the village petrol station, which had been there since cars arrived on the roads in the early 1900s. The earliest mention of Frank Dee's ‘agricultural motor and general engineer’ appears to be the advert in the 1923 Kelly's Directory; however, he may have been there since about 1920 / 1921, when a new building is shown on the site on the Ordnance Survey map.

The garage / petrol station closed in 1986, to be replaced by the Chestnut Grove houses.