The site is a Grade I Listed Building (National Heritage List for England (NHLE) ref. 1292809).
It was first designated as Grade II* by English Heritage (hereafter Historic England) in 1952, and subsequently upgraded in 1996 to Grade I status. It forms part of a range of buildings that are considered by Historic England to be of exceptional interest due to the high quality crown post roof and other historical timbers surviving within the building.
No. 65 is part of three properties, including No. 67 on the south side, and the Ancient House to the south-east. Together these buildings originally formed one large building that including No. 69 High Street (Pearson, 1995).
The stone range of the complex, known as the ‘Ancient House’, dates to the late 12th Century.
This building was possibly originally a priest’s house related to the adjacent Benedictine Abbey and may have later been utilised as a jail (Hasted, 1798).
The Grade I Listed No. 67 High Street and the Ancient House are both now under separate ownership and are not included under this programme of historic building recording.

The property was in use as a café at the time of the survey, it is known to Kent County Council that the refurbishment had already taken place; therefore the historic building recording was carried out partly retrospectively using photographs taken by the developer during the conservation works.
The building has a gabled front facing north-west onto the High Street with a late 19th Century shop front and a hipped roof tiled with industrially produced red ceramic tiles. The upper part is stuccoed with two 19th Century wooden casement windows. The lower part consists of a painted wooden half glazed shop / café front with four pilasters. A wooden signage board is located above the level of the windows.
The first floor east wall contains a doorway with a four-centred doorhead that dates to c. 1450-1475. An additional medieval former doorway is located further to the south. During the refurbishment this was converted into a window. Both of these doorways would have originally led to a former extension on the eastern side of the building.

AB Heritage, 2015, No 65 High Street, West Malling, Kent, Historic Building Record (Unpublished document). SKE31546.