The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HAWKHURST WATER LANE TQ 7630-7730 (west side)
17/476 Birchbarns II House. C16 or earlier, clad and extended mid C20. Timber framed and clad with red brick on ground floor and weather boarded on 1st floor and with plain tiled roof. Hall house origin. Two storeys, the early portion to left with tall, steeply pitched hipped roof with gablets and central moulded stack cluster, the roof stepped down to right and projecting slightly. Six wooden casements on 1st floor, the 2 to left at a slightly lower level and 5 on ground floor, the centre 2 with mullions and transoms, and with boarded door in side of hipped porch to centre left. The fenestration C20. The right hand extension obscures exposed framing and outshut recorded on the old Provisional List.
Listing NGR: TQ7722930477

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