Description from record TQ 83 SE 274:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 1715 SMALLHYTHE ROAD (East Side)
Priest's House TQ 83 SE 3/83 8.5.50.
II* GV
2. A C15 timber-framed house with close studding, the 1st floor overhanging on the protruding ends of the floor joists. 2 storeys, Old tiled roof. 3 casement windows with small square panes, one with wooden mullions and moulded bressumer beneath. Obtusely pointed doorway with carved spandrels. The left side retains 2 original blocked window openings and is partly tile-hung. Edith Craig lived here after Ellen Terry's death.
St John the Baptist's Church and Priest's House form a group,
Listing NGR: TQ8934230146 (1) Additional info. (2) Priest's House, a splendid early 16th century half- timbered house. (3) Priest's House, Smallhythe, was built soon after 1514. There is good reason to suppose it is erronously named. The name could have been applied to a house, known as the Chapel House, north of the chapel (TQ 83 SE 4) which was destroyed by fire in 1910. (4) Building survey carried out by Archaeology South East in 2005. Three main phases of construction: Built c.1514, the building initially consisted of a three-bay house with a jettied front, with a brick chimney. Minor alterations were made in the C17. c.1800the house was divided into two cottages, with the northern cottage consisting of the northern bay and the southern cottage consisting of the southern two bays. The southern cottage remained largely unaltered, but in the northern cottage a chimney and a lean-to housing a staircase and kitchen were added. (5)

Historic England archive material: BF040582 PRIESTS HOUSE, 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.

<2> DOE (HHR) Boro of Tenterden, Kent June 1972 56 (OS Card Reference). SKE39894.

<3> Bldgs of Eng W Kent & the Weald 2nd Ed 1980 photo 531 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37957.

<4> Arch Cant 96 1980 363-6 photo (J Winfrith) (OS Card Reference). SKE36247.

<5> Archaeology South-East, 2005, An Archaeological Interpretative Survey of The Priests' House, Smallhythe, Tenterden, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE17047.

<6> OS 1:12500 1974 (OS Card Reference). SKE48193.