Ransley Cottage

RANSLEY COTTAGE, THE CORNER

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1185104
Date first listed:
10-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:
Ransley Cottage
Statutory Address:
RANSLEY COTTAGE, THE CORNER

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1185104
Date first listed:
10-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:
Ransley Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
RANSLEY COTTAGE, THE CORNER

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
RANSLEY COTTAGE, THE CORNER

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Kent
District:
Ashford (District Authority)
Parish:
Ruckinge
National Grid Reference:
TR 02582 33635

Details

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

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
181689
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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