The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5280 CHIDDINGSTONE WAT STOCK Nos 1 and 2 (The Old Cottage) TQ 54 SW 54/286
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2. C15 hall house with alterations C16, C17 and C19. 2 storeys and attic, 3 windows. Very high pitched tiled roof, half hipped at right, with compound ridge stack. Visible stout square framing with plaster filling on 1st floor. Ground floor red brick with some blue headers, mostly C19 but some older. Just left of centre an early C17 gabled projection with moulded bargeboards and pendant. Attic part oversails on moulded beam. 5-light window below has moulded mullions and transoms. Moulded 1st floor beam. Other windows C18 and modern casements. Inside plank and muntin dais panelling remains, with elaborately moulded beam over.
Listing NGR: TQ5080643822 (1)

In 2011 a dendrochorological analysis was done of some the timbers in the building. Six were sampled for various places (crown post, SW crown post brace, collar purin, three wallpaltes, two posts and bressumer). One timber had the felling date was winter AD 1454/5 and indicates the primary phase of building. The chimney bressumer felled in winter of AD 1591/2 thus the chimney construction must have occurred at that time or soon thereafter. A timber from the north east end bay felled in AD 1489/90 and so suggests a period of rebuilding then. It is suggested that the timber comes from a local source. The building was a unusually rich four-bay medieval open-hall house, there was rebuilding perhaps due to subsidence. The service bay is missing and the parlour bay had been replaced. (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 Tree-Ring Services, 2011, Dendrochronological Analysis Of Oak Timbers From Watstock, Chiddingstone, Kent, England (Unpublished document). SKE17153.