The Manor House

TM 17 NW THRANDESTON MELLIS ROAD (NORTH WEST SIDE) 2/131 The Manor House - GV II*

House. c.1580, part demolished and altered C20. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply pitched plaintiled roof. Once larger, what remains was probably hall and parlour, service bays were to left. 2 storeys and attic, continuously jettied to front and back. 4 window front, entrance now to right of centre with a C19 rectangular fanlight, C20 cross casements. Plinth, jetty with unbraced butt ended joists to bressumer. Right gable end early external stack with offsets and a tapering shaft, an inserted stack internal to left end. To rear jetty has guilloche ornament on bressumer, original herringbone brick nogging on first floor, these features hidden by a C20 pantiled lean-to outshut. First floor original 5-light cyma recta mullioned window with flanking 2-light casements, 3 C19 2-light gabled dormers. Interior: parlour has crossed roll and ovolo moulded binding beams with high quality acanthus carved faces, each beam differing in details and both clearly Renaissance in style. Hall has a 3-light cyma recta mullioned window opening, stop chamfered axial binding beam, close studding with curved braces. First floor always ceiled with stop chamfered axial binding beams, collars clasp purlins.

Listing NGR: TM1121076393