The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CRANBROOK STONE STREET TQ 7736 SE (north east side) 10/233 20.6.67 Bird-in-Hand Cottage GV II
House, later alehouse and common lodging house, now shop. C16 and C18 cladding. Timber-frame on cement plinth with weatherboarded ground-floor to front, tile-hung above. Some exposed timber-framing on left return front with tile-hung above and in gable. Plain tiled roof. Tall ribbed brick stack to right of centre and end projecting brick stack to left. 2 storeys. Paired sashes on first floor and shop front with central half-glazed door and paired octagonal shop fronts flanking. Right-hand part of this building is obscured by lower C19 block of Waterloo House (not listed). Interior: Substantial evidence of timber-framing. Possible inserted stack with heavy wooden bressummer.
Listing NGR: TQ7776836034

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