Description

BICESTER MARKET SQUARE
SP5822S (North side)
3/74 Nos.22 and 23
20/03/70
GV II

2 shops and dwellings. Early C19, possibly partly earlier. Rendered walls with
stucco dressings; limestone rubble; Welsh-slate roofs with brick stacks. Linked
ranges with rear wings. 2-storey stuccoed 2-window front of No.22, with
rusticated quoins and a deep moulded cornice, has tall first-floor windows with
C20 frames, and a shop front retaining flanking carved consoles and a cornice to
the fascia, plus wide arched spandrelled heads to the windows. Narrow 3-storey
stuccoed front of No.23, to left, also has a cornice which breaks around
full-height pilaster strips, and a low parapet linking with that of No.22; first
floor has a canted bay window, and at second floor is a segmental-arched 16-pane
sash. Ground-floor shop front has a C19 bay window with spandrelled arched
heads, plus a projecting fascia on carved consoles with a moulded cornice.
Shallow-pitched roof is hipped to left. Rear wings are both of rubble. Interiors
not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP5847722379

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26298622

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5