The following text is from the original listed building designation:
EARL STREET 1. 5278 (South Side) Nos 45 & 47 TQ 7555 NE 1/99 30.7.51. II
2. A large probably C17 timber-framed house restored in 1892 and subdivided. No 45 is of 3 storeys and basement timber-framed with stone plinth. Tiled roof and 2 overhanging gables, with a 3 mullioned window to each. The lower floors have 2 projecting bays with mullioned windows. Left side lean to 2 storey extension with 1 mullioned window and plain batten door. Central Tudor arched doorcase with the date 1892 in the spandrels. No 47 is also 3 storeys and basement£timber-framed with a stone plinth, tiled roof. Gable front. 1 restored 3 mullioned window on the 2nd floor, mullioned and transomed windows to the lower floors and a left side restored doorcase.
Listing NGR: TQ7586055818

Watching brief to the rear found a section of a dwarf wall supporting the rear wall of the existing building. (1)

<1> 2005, An archaeological watching brief during the ground reduction and excavation of new foundation trenches associated with the construction of two new trenche to the rear of 45-7 Earl Street, Maidstone, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE13527.