The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5280 COWDEN COWDEN High Street (North Side) Rose Cottage TQ 4640 9/314
II
2. Probably C16 timber-framed cottage, of 2 storeys, 3 windows. High pitched, tiled roof, hipped at left, with rebuilt ridge stack. Tile hung 1st floor, brick ground floor. At right restored timber framing on rubble plinth. Roof extended as lean-to at left. C19 casements. Plank door under flat, bracketed hood. Rear elevation shows original timber framing, later brick filling, weatherboarded 1st floor.
Listing NGR: TQ4648740370

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