Listed Building record TR 03 SW 57 - RANSLEY COTTAGE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1799

Location

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

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Full Description

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


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