The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. EAST STREET 1732 (South Side) The Port Reeve's House TQ 5946 NW 3/50 8.5.50.
II*
2. Good example of a C15 timber-framed house (restored after war damage). It is built on a raised bank fronted along the pavement with sandstone. 2 storeys and attic. 4 windows. Plaster infilling. The first floor over-hangs on a moulded bressummer and brackets. 2 wide curved braces on first floor. 1 gable above over-hanging on moulded bressummer and brackets with moulded bargeboards and attic window. Also small gabled dormer to the west. Tiled roof. On the ground and first floors beneath the gable are oriel windows projecting on brackets and containing 5 lights each with wooden mullions and transom. Small window of 2 lights on either side of these oriel windows. Other windows modern. At the east end a massive chimney breast of red brick and sandstone with brick stack. Smaller wholly brick chimney at the west end.
Listing NGR: TQ5917046610

Description from record TQ 54 NE 13 :
1. HIGH STREET (West Side) No 122 (Ye Olde Chequers Inn) TQ 5946 NW 3/23 8.5.50. II* GV (TQ 59064658 - O.S. 1:2500 1969) 2. Very good example of a C15 timber-framed building. 3 storeys. 5 windows. Built in 4 sections, 2 projecting, 2 recessed. The southernmost section has the top of a pointed arch leading to the basement and now a shoot for goods; ground floor studded with an oriel window of 6 lights with wooden mullions and transom, cove beneath it and moulded cornice over; first floor projecting on the protruding ends of the floor joists and brackets with wide curved braces and modern casement windows with lozenge-shaped panes; second floor similarly projecting with gable above having decorative cuurved timbers arranged in the opposite way to the braces and forming a semi-circle, also cusped bargeboards. The second section is recessed but the ground floor is now built out with a modern window, above studded with 5-light modern casement window and a dormer. The third section containing the doorways has a first floor projecting on brackets with a cove beneath, curved braces, a sash window and a dormer with casement window. The north section had its first floor formerly jettied on the projecting ends of the floor but the ground floor is now underbuilt with 2 modern windows; curved braces and 2 sash windows on first floor; gable above but lower than the other with 1 casement window, curved timbers arranged the opposite way to the braces below and cusped bargeboards. Tiled roof. Glazing bars intact in the sash windows. 2 modern doorways. (1) The Chequers. Gables to left and to right, both with cusped bargeboards; the left gable larger and richer. (2) 1732 HIGH STREET (West Side) No 124 TQ 5946 NW 3/24 8.5.50 II* GV (TQ 59054659 - 0.S. 1:2500 1969) 2. Another good example of a restored C15 timber-framed house. 4 storeys, 2 windows. First and second floors overhang on the protruding ends of the floor joists and brackets but the ground floor has been underbuilt and now consists of a modern shop front. Wide curved braces curving outwards on first and second floors with small 4-light oriel windows not apparently original. The attic floor has 2 gables, each with curved braces arranged in the opposite pattern to those below, the ends meeting and forming a V upside down. Each gable has 2 very small casement windows, separated in each case by an upright timber. (1) Cobley's, Tonbridge, a fine large 15th century half-timbered house. Obviously planned for a cramped site in a street. Two three-storeyed gables, with symmetrical curved braces at two levels. The roof arrangement is most unusual inside: tiebeams, carrying crown posts, run the depth of each gable, and not across the width of them. (2) 1732 EAST STREET (South Side) The Port Reeve's House TQ 5946 NW 3/50 8.5.50 II* (TQ 59234662 - sited from HHR map) 2. Good example of a C15 timber-framed house (restored after war damage). It is built on a raised bank fronted along the pavement with sandstone. 2 storeys and attic. 4 windows. Plaster infilling. The first floor over-hangs on a moulded bressummer and brackets. 2 wide curved braces on first floor. 1 gable above over-hanging on moulded bressummer and brackets with moulded bargeboards and attic window. Also small gabled dormer to the west. Tiled roof. On the ground and first floors beneath the gable are oriel windows projecting on brackets and containing 5 lights each with wooden mullions and transom. Small window of 2 lights on either side of these oriel windows. Other windows modern. At the east end a massive chinmey breast of red brick and sandstone with brick stack. Smaller wholly brick chimney at the west end. (1-2) Portreeve's House, East Street, Tonbridge, a 16th century half timbered house, with oriel windows on brackets. (3) It has been claimed that the Portreeve's House was originally the Old Swan Inn, giving its name to Swan Lane (now East Street). (4)

<1> DOE (HHR) Dist. of Tonbridge U.D. Kent. Jan. 1972 9 (OS Card Reference). SKE40458.

<2> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<3> Bldgs of Eng W Kent & the Weald 1980 573 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37919.

<4> Arch Cant 48 1936 232 (A H Neve) (OS Card Reference). SKE35228.