The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CRANBROOK FREIGHT LANE TQ 73 NE (west side) 3/97 9.6.52 The Freight - II
Former Cloth Hall now house. C15, with C19 alterations and early C20 restoration. Timber-framed and clad in red brick on ground floor, with tile hanging on 1st floor. Plain tiled roof. Large stack to rear of block and end projecting stack to left. 2 hipped dormers in centre and right. 2 storeys. Irregular fenestration of 5 windows on first floor and 4 on ground floor, C20 wood framed transom and mullion diamond lattice casements. Central hipped single storey porch with boarded door in Tudor arched surround flanked by up- right windows. Large 2 storey wings to rear. Interior: Substantial evidence of timber frame.
Listing NGR: TQ7758435118 (1)

Substantial late 16th century and early 17th century house which contains fragments of a Wealden house. There is some evidence for a jetty at the front and recessed hall wall. A late 16th century house was added at the rear. (2)

Historic England archive material: BF040104 THE FREIGHT, CRANBROOK File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate. RCH01/048/01/217 Labelled sheet of drawings of the Freight, Cranbrook, with a sketch plan and a dais beam section

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

<2> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.