Description

BICESTER LONDON ROAD SP5822S (West side) 3/61 Station House approx. 15m. NW of level crossing II

Former station-master's house. c.1850. Coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings; plain-tile roofs with rubble and brick stacks. Z-shaped plan. One storey plus attics. Tudor style. Front breaks forward to right in a gabled cross wing, which contains a Tudor-arched doorway with a 4-panel door plus, at each floor, a 2-light small-pane casement with chamfered stone surround, wood mullion and 4-centred relieving arch. Lateral stack, rising from right return wall, has a rubble base and 2 tall brick diagonal shafts. Gabled return wall of blind section to left has aligned windows of 3 and 2 lights, and a further double-shafted lateral stack rises to rear. Central rear wing is in similar style. Gables have plain bargeboards with moulded apex pendants. Interior not inspected. Part of the London and North Western Railway which opened 1850.

Listing NGR: SP5872222042

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)