The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HAWKHURST RYE ROAD TQ 7630-7730 (south side)
17/421 Hawkhurst Place 9.6.52 - II House. Circa 1500 and altered c.1600. Timber framed and exposed close studding with plaster infill, and weather-boarded to return and rear elevations. Plain tiled roof. Hall house converted to continuous jetty. Two storeys and attic on stone base with continuous jetty on brackets and roof hipped to left with gablet and with stacks to rear and projecting and offset at left, the flue rebuilt, the base in English bond brick, with segmentally headed opening to cellar. Three gables with moulded bargeboards and coved oriels with moulded mullions and transoms and cornices, and with small 2-light leaded casements in gable heads. Three bay windows on ground floor, with similar 5-light mullioned and transomed windows to oriels. Rib and stud doors to centre left and centre right in C19 or C20 round-headed surrounds. Catslide outshot to rear. Interior: smoke blackened crown post roof, with octagonal crown post with shallow mouldings about 5 feet high. Large scantling chamfered beams with stop-chamfers through hoist and ingle- nooks. Wainscotting of c.1600, with tendril-scroll frieze panels in ground floor room and fillet moulded wainscott partitions in entrance hall. Hasted calls the place 'formerly of some account', converted for the Peckham family, late C16.
Listing NGR: TQ7679730316

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