The following text is from the original listed building designation:
RAMSGATE HIGH STREET TR 3765 SE (south-west side) 8/180 No. 156 (The Cottage) 13.8.68 GV II House. Dated 1711. Knapped and coursed flint with red brick dressings and plain tiled roof. Two storeys and attic on plinth with plat band with boxed eaves to roof with Dutch shaped gables, 2 flat roofed dormers and stack to end right. Two glazing bar sashes on each floor with central half-glazed door in segmental surround. To end left on 1st floor is half only of a roundel with date plaque, showing only the final 11 of the date (1711), indicating the house was originally part of a larger building, possibly that marked Little Ellington on 1735 plan of Ramsgate. (See Busson, Ramsgate, 70).
Listing NGR: TR3784565282

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