The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 67 41 BRENCHLEY FAIRMANS LANE
15/73 Nos 1 and 2 Gatehouse Cottages
GV II
Pair of cottages. Probably C18. Ground floor stretcher bond brick, first floor framed construction clad in weatherboarding. Peg-tile roof; brick stacks.
Plan: East facing and forming a group with No 3, at right angles and sited to the south. Pair of small 2-cell cottages with outshuts, the outer principal rooms heated from end stacks. No 2 only inspected internally. This has a heated room to the left (south) and smaller service room to the right, adjoining No 1. The rear outshut contains the original stair. Direct entrance into the heated room, C20 rear left (south west) addition. No 1 possibly mirror plan.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Almost symmetrical 4-window front, the roof gabled at ends, the left end stack (No 2) massive and projecting with a tile-hung set- off. Each cottage has a C19 plank door, slightly towards the centre of the range and 1-, 2- and 3-light small-pane C19 and C20 timnber casements.
Interior: No 2 has a large open fireplace with a re-used timber lintel. Plain exposed carpentry to ground and first floor ceilings. The wall-framing exposed on the first floor is of slender scantling with plain wall posts and evidence of the extensive re-use of old timbers. The stair in the outshut consists of simple quadrant timber baulks fixed to a ladder frame.
Roof: Not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ6785541446

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