The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5280 PENSHURST PENSHURST Main Street (South Side)
The Cottage TQ 5243 23/829 10.9.54.
II GV
2. Queen Anne elevational facade masking C16 framed structure. 2 storeys and dormers. Ridge tile roof and centre stack. Brick with brick band. Ornamental 3 centred brick moulding over door (probably C19). Ground floor: Restored panelled doorway with top lights. Egg and dart moulding around chamfered edges of panels. On either side of door, 2 octagon projecting bay windows with sash bars and supported on carved wooden brackets. Projecting hood over door supported on carved wooden brackets resting on stone corbels. Continuous dentilled moulding forming cornice to bay windows and hood. First floor: 2 sash windows in exposed frames. Dentilled frieze and cornice supporting gutter. Two hip tiled dormers with heavy oversailing moulded eaves. Casement windows. Glazing bars to all windows.
Quaintways Tea Rooms, The Cottage, Colquhoun House and Longford form a group with Kirkwood Garden Shop and La Petite Hair Salon.
Listing NGR: TQ5266043744

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