Little Jordan
LITTLE JORDAN, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297286
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Little Jordan
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE JORDAN, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297286
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Little Jordan
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLE JORDAN, CHURCH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE JORDAN, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Brentwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Blackmore, Hook End and Wyatts Green
- National Grid Reference:
- TL6033901802
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373318
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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