The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5280 CHIDDINGSTONE HOATH CORNER Spoke Shave. Cherry Cottage. TQ 44 SE 53/278
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2. C16 or earlier hall house with alterations. 2 storeys, 5 windows, irregular. Very high pitched tiled roof, half hipped at right, with one gabled dormer. End chimney stacks. Tile hung front, with brick below ground floor cills in right part (CHERRY COTTAGE). Cl9 and modern leaded and square paned casements. Modern gabled wood porch to Cherry Cottage. Back entrance to SPOKE SHAVE in long, pent back extension. Much exposed timber inside.
The Rock Public House, Barn to East of the Rock Public House, Spoke Shave and Cherry Cottage form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ4972043093 (1)

In 2011 a dendrochronological analysis of the oak timbers from Spokeshave and Cherry Cottages. Two samples were tested (post and wallplate). One was felled in winter AD 1397/8 and the other had the same date. This means the primary phase of the construction was likely to be AD 1398 or soon thereafter. The two cottages together form a four-bay medieval open-hall house. Further bay added in the 16th century. (2)

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

<2> Tree-Ring Services, 2011, Dendrochronological Analysis Of Oak Timbers From Spokeshave And Cherry Cottages, Chiddingstone, Kent, England. (Unpublished document). SKE17155.