The following text is from the original listed building designation:

1. 5282 HIGH STREET (North Side) SITTINGBOURNE Nos 60 and 62 TQ 9063 NE 2/7 II GV 2. This is a continuation of the facade of No 58 which was originally part of the Red Lion Inn. It was converted into houses about 1835. C18. 2 storeys and attics red brick. Tiled roof. Cornice and panelled parapet. 8 sashes with glazing bars missing. No 60 has a modern bank front and No 62 has a modern shop front.
Nos 30 to 62 (even) form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ9070563660

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The site of a large inn with medieval origins. The front range, rebuilt in the late 18th or early 19th century, extends for 12 bays. The presence of a beam within this suggests that the range was not completely rebuilt at this date but rather that a 16th century building was drastically renovated. (2)

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

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England, 1995, Historic Building Report: The Red Lion Public House, 58 High Street, Sittingbourne, Kent (Unpublished document). SWX6966.