The following text is from the original listed building designation:
GOUDHURST THE PLAIN TQ 7237-7337 (north side)
15/236 The Vine Hotel and 20.6.67 Assembly Room GV II Public house. C18 exterior to earlier structure extended 1874. Timber framed and clad with painted brick and tile hanging, painted to main elevation. Plain tiled roofs. Two storeys and basement on plinth with roof hipped to left and half-hipped to right, and stepped down to left to recessed 2 storey hipped wing. Stacks to rear, to left and projecting at end left and end right. Four wooden casements on lst floor, and 2 on ground floor, with multi-paned window and multi-paned bow/oriel to centre left. Doubled half-glazed doors to centre right in gabled porch. Half-glazed door to left in recessed wing. Basement opening to centre left. Rear elevation with hipped and tile hung wings and with glazing bar sashes. Interior: frame partly visible, the interior floor levels step down slope (right to left) considerably. Attached to rear right and ascending the High Street is an Assembly Room of 1874. Red brick with tile hung return and rear elevations and slate roof. One storey and basement with stack at end right. Two glazing bar sashes with basement openings below, cell with gauged heads, and boarded door to left, with semicircular fanlight and gauged surround and with iron lamp bracket over.
Listing NGR: TQ7223237761

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