The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5273 BEKESBOURNE OLD PALACE ROAD
Gatehouse, The Old Palace (formerly listed as outbuildings at The Old Palace) TR 15 NE 9/117 29.9.52
II GV
2. C16. This was the Gatehouse of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer's Palace. Two storeys red brick laid in English bond. Hipped slate roof. Three casement windows of 2 lights with 4 centred heads and stone mullions. In the west wall is a four-centred stone doorway with a stone over it inscribed "T C (Thomas Cranmer) 1552" and a cartouche of the arms of Archbishop Parker of Canterbury. Chimneybreast on north wall. To the east of the cottage is a red brick barn with a tiled roof with gable ends, hipped waggon entrance and casement windows.
Listing NGR: TR1937455531

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