Description

BICESTER SHEEP STREET
SP5822N (West side)
2/113 No. 27
20/03/70
GV II

Shop and dwelling, now shop and offices. Late C18/early C19 and mid C19. Coursed
limestone rubble; rendered rubble-and brick-with stucco dressings; Welsh-slate
roofs with brick and rendered end stacks. 2 parallel ranges. 2 storeys and 3
storeys. 2-storey stuccoed front, with plinth, storeyband, moulded cornice and
panelled flanking pilasters, has a panelled parapet breaking upwards with a
shallow-gabled central panel; the symmetrical 3-window arrangement has 12-pane
sashes at first floor, plus a central doorway with 4-panel door, ornamental
overlight, and a stucco door case with pilasters, a dentil cornice and, in the
frieze, a panel with egg-and-dart mouldings. The doorway is now flanked by C20
shop windows. Earlier 3-storey rubble rear range has sashes with rubble flat
arches but is partly obscured at ground floor by later extensions. Interior:
plaster modillion cornices; dog-leg staircase with winders, stick balustrade and
wreathed mahogany handrail.

Listing NGR: SP5847222520

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26298636

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)