Listed Building record TR 03 SW 57 - RANSLEY COTTAGE

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
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

It would appear that the cottage was used as a Post Office as shown on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Edition O/S maps until at least the 1960's.

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

Landmark, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 1st edition 1862-1875): Landmark Epoch 1 (Map). SKE30964.

Landmark, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 2nd Edition, 1897-1900): Landmark Epoch 2 (Unspecified Type). SKE30965.

Landmark, 1907-1923, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 3rd Edition, 1907-1923): Landmark Epoch 3 (Map). SKE30966.