45 AND 52, MARKET SQUARE
45 AND 52, MARKET SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046456
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 45 AND 52, MARKET SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 45 AND 52, MARKET SQUARE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046456
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 45 AND 52, MARKET SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 45 AND 52, MARKET SQUARE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 45 AND 52, MARKET SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bicester
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 58549 22383
Details
BICESTER MARKET SQUARE SP5822S 3/63 Nos.45 and 52 20/03/70 GV II
2 shops and dwellings. Late C17/early C18 and C18/early C19. Rendered light timber framing; Welsh-slate roofs with brick stacks. Gable-fronted plans, back to back. Narrow 3-storey front of No.45, facing east, has a tripartite sash at first floor, a 4-pane sash above, and has narrow sashes in the cant to left (all C19); C20 shop front; roof is hipped to front; 4-storey gabled front of No.52, facing west, is probably earlier at ground and first floors, and has a moulded wooden cornice above the renewed 4-light first-floor casement, above which the front wall is set back with further renewed casements; early-C20 shop front, Buildings both back onto a C17 stack with diagonal shafts, rising from a lower roofline. Interior: No.52 has a winder stair, and at first floor has intersecting chamfered beams and some elaborate bolection-mould panelling on the window wall. With No.44 (q.v.), forms a prominent group on an island site.
Listing NGR: SP5855322384
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243538
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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