The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 1715 EAST CROSS (West Side)
Nos 15 / 17 (formerly listed as Yew Tree House & Miriam House) TQ 8833 1/89 8.5.50
II* GV
2. An C18 composition of 2 houses. 2 storeys and attics red brick and mathematical tile on 1st floor. Half-hipped roof with wooden eaves cornice. 4 gabled dormers. 6 sashes with glazing bars intact. No 17 has 2 small bay windows on the ground floor. No 15 has a flat hood over the door resting on carved brackets. No 17 has a porch with slender columns, segmental fanlight and 6-panel moulded door. No 17 has a wing behind at right angles to the front which is probably older than the front of the house. All the listed buildings on the West Side of East Cross form a group. Listing NGR: TQ8855233549 (1)

Description from record TQ 83 SE 16:
[TQ 8855 3354 - O.S. 1:2500, 1971] Composition of two C18th houses:- Nos 15/17 formerly listed as Yew Tree House and Miriam House. Grade II*. (For full description see list.) (2)

HE archive material: BF083028 17 EAST CROSS 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.

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

<2> DOE(HHR) Boro of Tenterden Kent June 1972 16 (OS Card Reference). SKE40847.