Styles Piece

Styles Piece is a house dating from the early 16th century, likely extended in the 17th century and altered in the 20th century. It features a timber frame, with some parts exposed and others plastered, and has a thatched roof. The building consists of a three-cell range with a probably later lower cross wing that projects forward to the left, creating an L-shaped plan. It is two storeys high.

The hall and parlour range has a continuously jettied front. The exterior displays close studding with inserted brick nogging and heavily restored early mullioned windows. On the ground floor, there is an entrance to the left in an open thatched porch with a brick and timber base. The centre features a large five-light window with shafted hollow and ovolo mullions, complete with caps and bases and a moulded sill. To the right, there are smaller four and two-light windows with simpler hollow and ovolo mullions, and a 20th-century brick buttress. The jetty is supported by three shafts with brattished caps and curved braces, along with a moulded mid rail and bressumer, which has been partly rebuilt.

On the first floor, there is a central four-light window with chamfered and beaded mullions, flanked by hollow mullioned windows of two and four lights. Unusually, at the rear of the hall, there is a rebuilt external stack with offsets and two diagonal shafts. The cross wing that projects forward to the left has a high brick plinth, a cellar two-light hollow mullioned window, and three and four-light chamfered mullioned windows. The ridge stack is located where the hall and wing meet, and the roof is hipped to the rear left. The two-bay return of the cross wing features small casements, deep eaves, and a one-storey pantiled outbuilding. The interior has not been inspected.