The following text is from the original listed building designation:
SHIPBOURNE
190/3/23 IGHTHAM ROAD 03-MAY-84 (West side) 1, 2 AND 3 Church Gate Cottages
(Formerly listed as: IGHTHAM ROAD 1 AND 2 Church Gate Cottages)
GV II
Range of three cottages. Later C19. Vernacular Revival style. Coursed rubble stone ground floor with tile-hung first floor. Tiled roof with two ridge stacks and rear end stack. T-shaped plan. Two storeys: two windows to each cottage. Casement windows. South front is symmetrical with 2 outer return gables with plain bargeboards and 2 semi-dormers, also with plain bargeboards between. Entrances to nos 1 and 2 recessed in outer bays with two-centred arched doorways and wooden supports to overhangs above. Wooden balustrades between supports. No 3 is in T-wing and has a similar semi-dormer and wooden doorcase in south east angle but with hipped tiled roof and large ribbed brick end chimneystack to north gable. Included for group value only.
Listing NGR: TQ5919552257

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