The following text is from the original listed building designation:
STAPLEHURST STATION ROAD TQ 74 SE (East side)
3/168 The Railway Tavern
II
Public House. C17, with C19 and C20 alterations. Timber framed. Main range weatherboarded, wing rendered, both with tile-hung gables. Plain tile roof. T-plan; main range at right-angles to road, wing to left towards centre. 2 storeys and garret. Half-hipped roof to main range, and to left gable-end of wing. Multiple brick ridge stack to junction of main range and wing. Irregular fenestration of 2 casements; one small paned casement to wing and one 2-light to gable end of main range. Lean-to to front gable end. Weatherboarded lean-to in angle between main range and wing, returning round gable end of wing, with stack and with door to left end. Single-storey weatherboarded addition with half- hipped roof to right, also with door. Interior: only partly inspected. Exposed beams and C17 fireplace to front room of main range.
Listing NGR: TQ7857144252 (1)

A Heritage Statement was prepared to accompany a planning application in 2016 (2)

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

<2> Heritage Collective, 2016, Heritage Statement, Railway Tavern, Station Road, Staplehurst, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE52541.