Little Jordan

Little Jordan is a house located on Church Street in Blackmore, dating from around 1600 and the early 17th century. It is timber-framed, plastered, and weatherboarded, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building features a two-bay range facing Church Street, built around 1600, which has a stack at the rear of the right bay. The upper floor includes one bay that is part of No. 2 Church Street. There is also a three-bay range that extends obliquely to the rear of the left bay along Bull Alley, built in the early 17th century, which has an external stack at the end and a 19th-century single-storey extension beyond. The house has two storeys, with the front range being taller than the rear range.

The front elevation has a two-window range of sash windows with 8+8 lights; one on the first floor is an early 19th-century original, while the others are from the 20th century, all featuring moulded surrounds. The elevation facing Bull Alley has a 19th-century sash window with 6 lights on the ground floor, and a 20th-century half-glazed door with a side-light. On the first floor, there are two early 17th-century windows, each with three ovolo mullions, moulded glazing fillets, and diamond mortices for missing saddle bars. The lower storey of the gable end of the front range is weatherboarded.

Inside, the front range has unjowled posts, primary straight bracing, chamfered binding and axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of vertical section. There is a groove in the soffit of the front wallplate for sliding shutters, and a complete unglazed window with three diamond mullions on the first floor towards Bull Alley. The roof features clasped purlins with arched wind bracing. The hearth has been adapted for a 20th-century grate. Original windows on the first floor were discovered in 1988, featuring mullions typical of the period from 1620 and are in excellent condition externally. These features are considered to merit special care. A similar window, dated 1623 by inscription, can be found at the granary of Cressingham Temple Farm, which is not included in this listing.