Little Jordan

BLACKMORE

TL6001 CHURCH STREET 723-1/15/10 (East side) 20/02/67 Little Jordan (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD CHURCH STREET, Blackmore (East side) Little Jordan)

GV II

Formerly known as: House of Little Jordan (2 occupiers) CHURCH STREET Blackmore BRENTWOOD. House. c1600 and early C17. Timber-framed, plastered and weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2 bay range facing Church Street, c1600, with stack to rear of right bay; on the upper floor one bay is incorporated in No.2 (qv). 3-bay range extending obliquely to rear of left bay, along Bull Alley, early C17, with external stack at end, and C19 single-storey extension beyond. 2 storeys (the front range taller than the rear range). 2-window range of sashes of 8+8 lights, one on the first floor being an early C19 original, the others C20, all with moulded surrounds. The elevation to Bull Alley has on the ground floor one C19 sash of 6 lights, and a C20 half-glazed door with side-light; on the first floor 2 early C17 windows each with 3 ovolo mullions with moulded glazing fillets, and diamond mortices for missing saddle bars. The lower storey of the gable end of the front range is weatherboarded. INTERIOR: the front range has unjowled posts, primary straight bracing, chamfered binding and axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of vertical section, a groove in the soffit of the front wallplate for sliding shutters, and a complete unglazed window with 3 diamond mullions on the first floor, towards Bull Alley; clasped purlin roof with arched wind bracing. Hearth adapted in C20 grate. The original windows on the first floor were discovered in 1988, with mullions of a section which is common from 1620, in excellent condition externally. These features merit special care. There is a similar window, dated 1623 by inscription, at the granary of Cressingham Temple Farm (not included).

Listing NGR: TL6033901802