The following text is from the original listed building designation:
STAPLEHURST CHICKENDEN LANE TQ 84 SW (North side)
4/74 23.5.67 Cottons Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse, now house. C15, with later alterations. C16 or early C17 rear wing. Timber framed, with rendered infilling. Plain tile roof. Open hall of 2 roughly equal-length timber-framed bays, that to left subdivided with cross-passage to left. Storeyed end bays. 2 storeys. Rendered plinth. Gable end jetties. Close-studded, with higher midrail to right hall bay, and pegs for broad window-cill to same bay. Hipped roof with gablets. Multiple brick stack to left end of left hall bay. Irregular fenestration of 4 windows; one 3-light casement to left end bay, one 2-light casement to each hall bay, and one 4- light diamond mullion window to right end. Pegged cill for mullioned window to left end. Ribbed door in moulded 4-centred-arched architrave, with head higher than midrail, to left end of hall. Short C16 two-bay timber-framed rear wing to left, gabled and tile-hung on first floor. Interior: exposed framing. Moulded right end-of-hall beam, morticed for spear towards rear end and grooved for boarded partition. Right end room morticed for axial subdivision. Doubly-chamfered central truss posts, with hollow-chamfered arch braces to tie-beam. Moulded octagonal crown-post. Ogee braces to left end-of-hall partition. Moulded 4-centred-arched stone fireplace.
Listing NGR: TQ8011843894
Formerly TQ 84 SW 25 (1)

End jetty house with a formerly open 2-bay hall with both ends jettied. In circa 1600 a wing was added behind the service and lower end of the hall.(2)

Historic england archive material: BF040430 COTTONS FARMHOUSE, STAPLEHURST 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. RCH01/048/01/672 Labelled sheet of drawings of Cottons Farmhouse, Staplehurst, with a ground-floor plan, a crown-post elevation, and a dais beam profile

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

<2> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.