The following text is from the original listed building designation:
ROCHESTER HIGH STREET TQ 7567 NW 13/161 Nos 347 and 349 (The Ship Inn) 23-8-74 GV II Public House C18, of 2 builds. Stuccoed and painted brick, C20 interlocking concrete tile roof to No 349, Kent-tiled to No 347, 4 bays at east (No 349) 2 storeys, 2 bays at west (No 347). No 349 has one ground plate glass sash, 4 first floor late C20 fixed and upper louvred replacement windows, 4 2nd floor 6 pane sashes. Coped parapets. 2 hipped gabled roofs at right angles with end stacks. Central door, ground floor early C20 cornice unites both houses to form public house front; fenestration altered and partly filled in with brick. No 347 has 2 first floor C20 fixed and upper louvred windows, parapet; weatherboarded returns and rear with sashes. Hipped roof, 2 stacked. Canted angle entrance with pilasters and cornice to doorcase on curve. Interior: rear lobby of west build (No 347) has partly panelled walls with plaster cornice, pilastered and arched entrance, suggesting c.1700 date.
Listing NGR: TQ7512567931

Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2005, Archaelogical, Documentary and Historical Assessment of the Lower High Street/Ship Lane Proposed Development and Neighbouring Land, Rochester (Unpublished document). SKE15869.