22 And 23 Market Square

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

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

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1453 IOE Records taken by Chris Neville; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Chris Neville. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project