Description

BICESTER MARKET SQUARE SP5822S (East side) 3/79 No.4 31/01/52 GV II

House, now offices. Early C18, altered late C18 and C20. Chequer brick with painted stone dressings, and limestone rubble; Welsh-slate roof with brick stack. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys. Symmetrical 5-window front, with storeybands and wooden dentil cornice, has painted rustication to the stone ground-floor wall, and is brick above. Central doorway has a wide plain architrave with double-stepped keyblock, and a flat canopy with dentil cornice on scroll brackets, and it is flanked by wide tripartite sashes, probably a late-C18 alteration. Upper windows have 4-pane C19 sashes, except those in the outer bays which are blind and have painted glazing bars; all have wedge lintels and projecting stone aprons. A large stack rises from the rubble return wall to left. Hipped roof has 2 gables to rear. Interior: open-well stair with closed string, moulded handrail, turned newels and balusters, and winders; panelled ground-floor room with moulded cornice and arched display niche beside the corner fireplace; panelled first-floor room with moulded cornice. Part of ground floor is now continuous with the sales area of No.3 (not included). (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VI, p.18).

Listing NGR: SP5859022379

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)