The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 85 NW BEARSTED SUTTON STREET (west side)
6/41 The Old Cottage
II
House. C17. Timber framed with brick infilling and plain tile roof. 2 storeys on brick plinth. Widely spaced studs with staggered ground-floor cross-rails. Roof half-hipped with gablet at left end and hipped with gablet at right end. Central ridge stack and small projecting stack at right gable end. 2 small eaves dormers. 2 timber-framed bays. Irregular fenestration of one central leaded 3-light casement on first floor, one C20 bay window with plain tiled roof at left end of ground floor and one leaded casement at right end of ground floor. Heavy panelled door towards right right end in C20 wooden porch with plain tile roof. Left gable end has casement with plain-tiled pent ice roof over at left end of ground floor and blocked door at right end. Interior: stairs probably in original position, against front wall to centre of house with passage separating them from stack.
Listing NGR: TQ8059655598 (1)

Historic England archive material: BF008539 THE OLD COTTAGE, BEARSTED

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