Ransley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1988. House.

Ransley Cottage

WRENN ID: eastward-brick-plum
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Ashford
Country: England
Date first listed: 10 August 1988
Type: House
Source: Historic England listing

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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