The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5272 SMARDEN THE STREET (south side) 14.2.67 Dragon Cottage (formerly listed under High Street 17.9.52 Dragon House
TQ 8842 29/12 GV
II*
2. One building. L-shaped C15 timber-framed building with plaster infilling, the first floor of the west wing close-studded. The first floor of the north wing has curved braces and oversails on a bressumer and brackets, with a half-hipped tile-hung gable above also oversailing on brackets and a bressumer carved and painted with figures of winged animals, and containing an attic window. Hipped tiled roof. Casement windows with small square panes. Two small oriel windows on the first floor. In the centre of the west wing is an C18 doorcase with flat hood on brackets and a door of 6 fielded panels. Two storeys. Three windows. Listing NGR: TQ8809142328 Formerly TQ 84 SE 11 (1)

A house built mainly in the late 16th and 17th centuries when an earlier house of probably 15th century date was heightened and substantially altered. There is some evidence to suggest the former existence of an open 2-bay hall.(2)

Historic England archive material: AL2390/037/01 Looking east past Dragon House in Smarden
BF040472 THE DRAGON HOUSE, SMARDEN File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate. RCH01/048/01/616 Labelled floor plan of the Dragon House, Smarden

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.