The following text is from the original listed building designation:
BENENDEN TQ8032 THE STREET 1350-0/7/136 (North East side) Ivydene, Mersham Cottage and The Beauty Box GV II 2 cottages and shop. Cottages late C18, shop late C19. Cottages are weatherboarded on the ground floor and tile hung on the 1st floor. Old tiled roof, half-hipped to right hand side. Central square brick stack, heightened in late C19. 2 triple casements. Ground floor has central doorcase with flat hood and 4 panelled door with Head of Mercury door knocker. 2 storeys 2 windows with catslide roof to rear. Shop has ground floor of red brick, 1st floor tile hung with bands and diamonds of curved and painted tiles and tiled roof. Projecting gable with curved bargeboards, pendant and finial,supported on 2 iron columns and one 4-paned sash window.
Listing NGR: TQ8079232943

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