Description from record TQ 83 SE 15:
(TQ 88433333 OS 1:2500 1971) 1715 HIGH STREET (South Side) Ns 29, 31 & 33 TQ 8833 1/9 8.5.50. Grade II*. A C15 to C16 timber-framed house. 2 storeys close-studded with plaster infill. The 1st floor overhangs on the protruding end of the floor joists and curved brackets. It originally had a recessed centre but this was jettied across in the C16 when the open hall was roofed over. 4 windows. Hipped tiled roof. The 1st floor has C17 casement windows with small square panes and a moulded wooden stringcourse beneath them. Modern ground floor windows. Original 4- centred doorcase in frame surmounted by embattlementation and with carved quatrefoils in the spandrels. Another plain doorway at the west end of the front. The side elevation has a curved brace exposed and weatherboarded extensions. Some contemporary panelling inside. (1) The Tudor Rose Cafe, Tenterden is the best half-timbered house in the High Street, close-studded and originally with a recessed centre, but jettied across the recess in the 16th century, when the open hall had a floor put across it. (2) Description from record TQ 83 SE 27: C15 Wealden hall house with later alterations

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 1715 HIGH STREET (South Side)
Nos 29, 31 & 33 TQ 8833 1/9 8.5.50.
II* GV
2. A C15 to C16 timber-framed house. 2 storeys close-studded with plaster infill. The 1st floor overhangs on the protruding end of the floor joists and curved brackets. It originally had a recessed centre but this was jettied across in the C16 when the open hall was roofed over. 4 windows. Hipped tiled roof. The 1st floor has C17 casement windows with small square panes and a moulded wooden stringcourse beneath them. Modern ground floor windows. Original 4-centred doorcase in frame surmounted by embattlementation and with carved quatrefoils in the spandrels. Another plain doorway at the west end of the front. The side elevation has a curved brace exposed and weatherboarded extensions. Some contemporary panelling inside. All the listed buildings on the South side from Nos 17 to 57 form a group. Listing NGR: TQ8842633328 (3)

Historic England archive material: BF039722 TUDOR ROSE CAFE, TENTERDEN

<1> DOE (HHR) Dist of Tenterden, Kent June 1972 22 (OS Card Reference). SKE40360.

<2> Bldgs of Eng W Kent & the Weald 2nd Ed 1980 564 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37949.

<3> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.