The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 05 SE CHILHAM DANE STREET (west side)
4/15 No. 4 Tavern Cottage (formerly listed as 27.11.57 Dane Street Cottages)
GV II
Hall house. Circa 1500. Timber framed, exposed with plaster infill and part clad in red brick with plain tile roof. Truncated Wealden - the expected jettied bay to right burnt down in C18, as evidenced by the red brick cladding to this end wall. Remaining 3 framed bays: 2 storeys on plinth, left framed bay jettied at first floor. Hipped roof with gablets and now central ridge stack, inserted into old screens passage. Two framed bays to right were original recessed central hall. Irregular fenestration of 3 windows. C19 brick mullion windows to ground floor and first floor to right, casements to first floor left, and chamfered brick mullioned lights (C16?) to centre. Exposed central frame of original entry to screens passage, entrance now to rear. Interior: crown post roof.
Listing NGR: TR0577452906 (1)

Description from record TR 05 SE 58 :
Late C15 or early C16 house of Wealden form

Timber framed house with a lower end and formerly open 2-bay hall of a Wealden house. The upper end has been demolished but part of the construction of the front jetty survives. (2)

Historic England archive material: RCH01/048/01/188 Labelled sheet of drawings of Tavern Cottage, Chilham, with a sketch plan of the ground-floor, a crown-post elevation, and isometric sketches of the crown-post and tie-beam joint, and a scarf joint BF008798 TAVERN COTTAGE, CHILHAM

<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.