Listed Building record TR 04 SW 264 - RANSLEY COTTAGE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1599

Location

Grid reference TR 0473 4088 (point)
Map sheet TR04SW
District ASHFORD, KENT
Civil Parish MERSHAM, ASHFORD, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 04 SW MERSHAM KINGSFORD STREET (south side)
3/139 Ransley Cottage
II
House. C16,timberframed clad with galletted ragstone with red brick dressings. Plain tiled roof. Two storeys and basement on plinth, with red brick quoins and pilaster strips flanking window bays. Hipped roof with gablets and stack to end right. Two wooden casements on first floor with central blank panel. Three wooden casements on ground floor with segmental heads, that to centre originally a doorway. Segmentally headed basement opening to centre right. Entry now in weatherboarded outshot to rear. Interior: frame and C16 cellar with stairs reported. Associated with the infamous Ransley gang of C18/C19 smugglers.
Listing NGR: TR0483440425


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

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

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM