The following text is from the original listed building designation:
LONDON ROAD 1. 1746 No 85 (Rock Villa) TQ 5839 NW 3/53 20.5.52 II* GV 2. C18. 2 storeys and attics. The front is tile-hung and painted. 3 dormers, the centre one with curved pediment. 3 sashes with glazing bars intact. The centre 1st floor window is round-headed. Porch with thin columns, open pediment and rectangular fanlight to the doorway with geometric tracery. Modern door. A tablet on the house records that Thackeray stayed there in 1860 and wrote "Tunbridge Toys" there. Nos 83 to 85 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ5827639704 (1)

Description from record TQ 53 NE 40 :
1746 LONDON ROAD No 85 (Rock Villa) TQ 5839 NW 3/53 20.5.52 II* GV (TQ 58273971 - OS 1:2500 1961) 2. C18. 2 storeys and attics. The front is tile-hung and painted. 3 dormers, the centre one with curved pediment. 3 sashes with glazing bars intact. The centre 1st floor window is round-headed. Porch with thin columns, open pediment and rectangular fanlight to the doorway with geometric tracery. Modern door. A tablet on the house records that Thackeray stayed there in 1860 and wrote "Tunbridge Toys" there. (2) Thackeray's House; two storeys, three bays wide, under a hipped roof. Fenestration of the later 18th century but is the structure older? (3)

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> DOE (HHR) Dist of Tunbridge Wells Kent June 1974 54 (OS Card Reference). SKE40420.

<3> Bldgs of Eng W Kent and the Weald 1980 586 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38020.