The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5275 HIGH STREEET (West Side)
The Barbican TR 3358 1/129 19.5.50.
I GV 2
Probably of late C14 origin. Consists of 2 round towers, which have a base of ashlar. Above this the ground floor is chequered work of stone and flints with loop windows. Entry is via a semi-circular timber barrel roof between the towers and tiled over. The 1st floor has been modernised; the south east tower has been fronted with weather- boarding, the north west tower with rough plaster almost like roughcast. Conical tiled roofs. On the town side of the towers are 2 modern or modernised buildings of rubble and brick, and on the first floor weather-boarding joined by a hipped tiled roof over the whole. A small 2-storeyed modern house has been built on to north side of the north west tower and is now occupied by the toll collector.
The Barbican, No 4 (Crispin Inn) and Nos 4 to 12 (even) Strand Street form a group.
Listing NGR: TR3317058193 (1)

Formerly TR 35 NW 130

Historic England archive material (2)

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

<2> Historic England, Archive material associated with The Barbican - Davis Gate, Listed Building (Archive). SKE55410.