The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 1715 HIGH STREET (South Side)
No 43 (The Eight Bells Inn) TQ 8833 1/10 8.5.50.
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2. A C15 timber-framed building refronted in the C18 but with the timbering still visible in the side facing Bells Lane. The front elevation is of 2 storeys and attic painted brick. Cornice and parapet. 3 sashes with glazing bars missing. 2 small bay windows on ground and 1st floors. Modern public house front on ground floor between them. The building extends back a long way and on the east side the 1st floor projects on the protruding ends of the floor joists and curved brackets with a moulded bressumer at the north end of this front. The north corner of the 1st floor is studded but the ground floor below it and the whole of the rest of this side is now fronted with weatherboarding. Modern casement windows. The rear elevation has a portion with 2 gables and Venetian windows and there is also a weatherboarded stable.
All the listed buildings on the South side from Nos 17 to 57 form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ8838633301 (1)

Historic England archive material: BF040572 THE EIGHT BELLS INN, TENTERDEN 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.