This crossing keeper's house was part of the Paddock Wood to Hawkhurst Branch Line ('The Hop Pickers' Line').Althoughmuch of the railway infrastructure was demolished during the early 1960s, the cottage was reatained and is now a private dwelling.

As with the other keepers cottages along the PWH BL, the Smallbridge keepers cottage
is of local significance. "In part this stems from the association with Holman Stephens", the assisant engineer on the railway construction project (1-2)

<1> AOC Archaeology, 2016, Paddock Wood to Hawkhurst Branch Line, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Historic Environmental Desk-Based Assessment, with particular ref to Hop growing and picking Volume 1 (Unpublished document). SKE32563.

<2> AOC Archaeology, 2016, Paddock Wood to Hawkhurst Branch Line, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Historic Environmental Desk-Based Assessment, with particular ref to Hop growing and picking Volume 2 (Unpublished document). SKE32564.