Listed Building: RANSLEY COTTAGE (1185104)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1419, 6, 103
Date assigned 10 August 1988
Date last amended

Description

TR 03 SW RUCKINGE THE CORNER (south side) 6/103 Ransley Cottage GV II House. C16, altered late C18. Timber framed and clad with painted brick, with plain tiled roof. One storey and attic, present entrance front (to roadside) with catslide outshots to front and rear elevations with hipped roof and gablets and central stack, and stack to right in outshot. Two wooden casements and central boarded door. Half glazed doors to return and rear elevations. Two large gabled dormers and bow windows in rear elevation (former entrance front). Said to be birth place (1782) and home of George Ransley, leader after 1821 of the Aldington Gang, and one of the last great figures of Kentish smuggling legend. Listing NGR: TR0260733627

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  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TR 0258 3363 (point)
Map sheet TR03SW
Civil Parish RUCKINGE, ASHFORD, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 17 2006 9:59AM