Styles Piece

TM 17 NW 2/123 29.7.55

THRANDESTON LITTLE GREEN (NORTH SIDE) Styles Piece (formerly listed as Stile Piece)

GV II

House. Early C16, probably extended in C17, altered C20. Timber frame, part exposed, part plastered. Thatched roof. 3 cell range with a probably later lower cross wing projecting forward to left to form an L on plan. 2 storeys. Hall and parlour range is continuously jettied to front. Close studding with inserted brick nogging and heavily restored early mullioned windows. Ground floor: entrance to left in a 020 open thatched porch with a brick and timber base, a large 5-light window to centre with shafted hollow and ovolo mullions with caps and bases, moulded sill, further right small 4 and 2-light windows with simpler hollow and ovolo mullions, C20 brick buttress to right. 3 shafts with brattished caps to curved braces supporting jetty, moulded mid rail and bressumer, part rebuilt. First floor central 4-light window with chamfered and beaded mullions, flanking hollow mullioned windows of 2 and 4-lights. To rear of hall in an unusual position a rebuilt external stack with offsets and 2 diagonal shafts. Cross wing projects forward to left with high brick plinth, cellar 2-light hollow mullioned window, 3 and 4-light chamfered mullioned windows. Ridge stack where hall and wing meet, roof hipped to rear left. 2 bay return of crosswing has small casements, deep eaves, a 1 storey pantiled outbuilding. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: TM1150776564