Ransley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. House. 6 related planning applications.
Ransley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-column-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ransley Cottage, Kingsford Street, Mersham, TN25 6PF
- OS grid reference
- TR 047 408
- Coordinates
- 51.13062, 0.92471
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ransley Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century. It is timber-framed and clad with galletted ragstone, featuring red brick dressings. The cottage has a plain tiled roof and stands two storeys high with a basement on a plinth. It has red brick quoins and pilaster strips flanking the window bays. The roof is hipped with gablets and has a stack at the right end.
On the first floor, there are two wooden casements with a central blank panel. The ground floor has three wooden casements with segmental heads, with the central one originally being a doorway. There is a segmentally headed opening to the basement on the centre right. The entry is now located in a weatherboarded outshot at the rear. Inside, there is a frame and a 16th-century cellar with reported stairs. The cottage is associated with the notorious Ransley gang of smugglers from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Local climate
Ransley Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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