The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 04 SE BROOK NACCOLT ROAD (east side)
4/46 Elm Cottage and bakehouse attached
II
House and bakehouse. C15, altered C16/C17, extended C19. Timber framed and clad with red brick, with tile hanging to return elevations. Four bay hall house in origin. One storey and attic on ragstone footings, extended by 2 storeys. Hipped roof with gablets, with 2 hipped dormers and large stack cluster to left and projecting and offset stack to right. Three wooden casements on ground floor and 1 to left on 1st floor of gabled extension. Boarded doors to centre left and to right. Catslide outshot to rear. Sans purlin roof with smoke blackening. Large inglenooks/fitted cupboards. Newel stair with enriched newels. Bake house to rear, single storey with hipped roof and central stack and attached store rooms. (See Traditional Kent Buildings, Vol. 5).
Listing NGR: TR0648743760

The building was subject to a historic building survey in 2002 (2)

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

<2> Archaeology South - East, 2002, An archaeological interpretative study of Elm Cottages, Hinxhill, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE54991.