Listed Building: STYLES PIECE (280413)

THRANDESTON LITTLE GREEN (NORTH SIDE) TM 17 NW 2/123 Styles Piece (formerly 29.7.55 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: TM1151576557