The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HEVER Hever Castle 1. 5280 TQ 4745 15/512 10.9.54. I 2. Late C13 - early C14 keep with links to square towers at East and West, all battlemented. License to crenellate 1340. New wood footbridge over moat to portcullis in slightly projecting centrepiece of late C14 (another license of 1384) with machicolation above. Back wings of circa 1500, also in stone, with steep tiled roofs and mullioned and transomed windows. Windows inserted in old keep at similar period. Within courtyard restored exposed framing. Interior much restored in early C19. Hever Castle was the home of Anne Boleyn. It changed hands several times until purchased by Mr W W Astor in 1903, when J L and F L Pearson added "The Village" a picturesque cluster of guest cottages. 2-storeys, or one storey and attic, irregular buildings. Some roofs tiled, some of Horsham stone, many gables; some jettied 1st floors. Upper floors mostly half timbered with plastered filling. Ground floors mainly roughly coursed stone with some brickwork. Some timbers carved. Little loggia, around angle of building nearest to Castle, leads to covered bridge over moat.
Listing NGR: TQ4783045188 (1)

The licence to crenellate from 1340 is unknown. Licences are recorded in the Calendar of Patent Rolls for 1271 (2) and 1383 (3).

Additional bibliography (4-8)

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

<2> H.C. Maxwell Lyte, 1913, Calendar of Patent Rolls (1266-72) (Bibliographic reference). SKE17249.

<3> H.C. Maxwell Lyte, 1897, Calendar of Patent Rolls (1381-85) (Bibliographic reference). SKE17248.

<4> OS 6" 1936-7 (OS Card Reference). SKE48343.

<5> Battle and district historical society, 1963, Battle and District Historical Society transactions (OS Card Reference). SKE53650.

<6> Thacker, C., 1987, Register of parks and gardens of special historic interest in England: part 24 (Kent) (Article in serial). SWX7605.

<7> D Cathcart King, 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (OS Card Reference). SKE38603.

<8> Fortress Study Group, 1975, Fort : the international journal of fortification and military architecture (Serial). SKE53649.