Description from record TQ 85 SW 8 :
[TQ 83765478] Godfrey House [GT] (1) A fine example of an Elizabethan house built in 1587 and restored in 1859. (2) Godfrey House, as described above. A private residence in good condition. A tablet confirms the name, and dates of erection and restoration. See GP AO/61/76/5 from W. (3) Godfrey House built in 1587. Timber-framed building with plaster infilling on a stone base. The ground floor is close-studded with 3 red brick bays containing ws. of 2 tiers of 5 lights with wooden mullions and transoms and diamond-shaped leaded lights. The first floor oversails on a moulded bressummer with curved braces and 3 similar oriel ws with plastered coves beneath them. Above are 3 gables with curved braces and jettied upper portions containing attic ws. Tiled roof. Towards the north end is a projection containing a porch on the ground floor with a room over lit by a w. of 2 tiers of 3 lights surmounted by a similar but larger gable. Above the doorway is a stone tablet inscribed "Godfrey House. Built 1587, restored 1859". (4) Additional bibliography. (5) Godfrey House. An impressive and well preserved house. (6) Godfrey House. Grade II*. Late C16. Restored 1859. (For full description see list) (7) Additional bibliography. (8)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HOLLINGBOURNE EYHORNE STREET TQ 8354 (East side)
9/132 Godfrey House
20.10.52
II*
House. Late C16. Restored 1859. Timber framed with plaster infilling. Plain tile roof. Lobby entry plan. 2 storeys and attics on stone plinth. Close studding to ground floor, first floor with studs to corner and flanking the windows. Ogee tension braces to first floor and dormers. Continuous jetty with moulded bressumer. Projecting porch to left of centre, of 2 storeys and attic, jettied to front on first floor, to 3 sides on moulded dragon posts at wall-plate level of house, and to front at eaves level of dormer. Attic jettied to left gable end. Brick ridge stack of 4 octagonal corbelled flues to left of centre. Projecting brick stack to right gable end with octagonal corbelled flues. 3 eaves dormers with jettied gables, one to left and 2 to right of porch, each with one 2-light mullioned window. One 3-light mullioned window to gable over porch. One 10-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed first-floor oriel window with moulded cornice and plastered ogee base immediately below each eaves dormer, and one of 6 lights to first floor of porch. 3 rectangular ground-floor bays with 10-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed windows on stone bases. Ribbed door to porch. Tablet over door inscribed "Godfrey House. Built 1587, restored 1859." Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ8376254773 (11)

In October 2023, Godfrey House was the main focus of a built heritage statement relating to land to the rear of Brickfield Close and Godfrey House. (12)

<1> OS 6" 1961 (OS Card Reference). SKE48369.

<2> A Saunter through Kent 2 1900 28 (C Igglesden) (OS Card Reference). SKE32858.

<3> F1 ASP 24-Nov-61 (OS Card Reference). SKE42267.

<4> DOE (HHR) Hollingbourne RD Kent Nov 1960 48 (OS Card Reference). SKE40570.

<5> Bldgs of Eng NE & E Kent 1969 342 (N Pevsner & J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37742.

<6> F2 MJF 19-Mar-86 (OS Card Reference). SKE43349.

<7> DOE (HHR) Borough of Maidstone Kent 21 November 1986 64 (OS Card Reference). SKE39931.

<8> Bldgs of Eng-NE & E Kent 1983 356 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38118.

<9> Field report for monument TQ 85 SW 8 - November, 1961 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4485.

<10> Field report for monument TQ 85 SW 8 - March, 1986 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4486.

<11> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<12> RPS Group, 2023, Land to the south of Brickfield Close, Hollingbourne, Kent: Built Heritage Statement (Unpublished document). SKE55793.