The following text is from the original listed building designation:
STAPLEHURST HIGH STREET TQ 7843 (East side)
5/129 North Cottage and South Cottage 23.5.67 (formerly listed as Loddenden Cottages)
GV II
House or house row. C17. Timber-framed. Exposed posts with red brick infilling in stretcher bond to ground floor, first floor tile- hung. Exjiosed framing of close-set thin-scantling studs, almost straight tension brace, and jowled post, to left gable end. Approximately 4 timber-framed bays. 2 low storeys and garret. Continuous jetty with rendered bressumer. Half-hipped roof. Multiple red and grey brick stack to third timber-framed bay from left. Irregular fenestration of 3 casements; one deep 3-light to left, one paned single-light to left of stack, and one 2-light to right. Boarded shutters to 2 left ground-floor windows. 3 boarded doors; towards left end, to right end of broad left-central bay, and to right end. Brick lean-to with rendered gable to right end. Rear lean-to. Interior not inspected. Formerly known as Loddenden Cottages.
Listing NGR: TQ7858343317

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