The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HEADCORN HIGH STREET TQ 8344 (North side) 10/71 Nos. 53-57 (odd)
GV II
House and shops. C18 with later alterations. Ground floor chequered red and grey brick, first floor patched red brick, partly in Flemish bond. Mathematical tiles to first floor of right gable end, with banded plain and fishscale tiles above. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys and garret. Triangular wooden modallions to eaves cornice. Half-hipped roof. Brick stack in rear slope of roof, to left of centre. Irregular fenestration of 3 windows; one 16-pane sash in open box towards left end and 2 recessed sashes with marginal glazing bars towards right. 2 ground-floor shop fronts. Boarded door with segmental head to No. 53 to left end. Boarded double doors to Nos. 55 and 57 slightly to right of stack. Continuous pentice on straight braces with weatherboarding to ends and plain tile roof. Later C19 rear additions. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ8349344232

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