Thames House

13, MARKET SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1046460
Date first listed:
20-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:
Thames House
Statutory Address:
13, MARKET SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1046460
Date first listed:
20-Mar-1970
Date of most recent amendment:
20-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:
Thames House
Statutory Address 1:
13, MARKET SQUARE
Statutory Address 2:
THAMES HOUSE, 14, MARKET SQUARE

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
13, MARKET SQUARE
Statutory Address:
THAMES HOUSE, 14, 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 58525 22401

Details

BICESTER MARKET SQUARE SP5822S (North side) 3/68 Nos.13 and 14 (Thames House) 20/03/70 (Formerly listed as Nos.13 and 14) GV II

Shop and dwelling, now shops and offices. Probably early C18. Limestone ashlar and rubble; roughcast timber framing; plain-tile roofs with brick gable stacks. Double-depth plan with short rear wing. 2 storeys plus attic. Roughcast front, with richly-moulded wooden cornice, has 4 irregularly-spaced tall windows at first floor, and has 3 flat-headed roof dormers with moulded cornices; C20 shop fronts. Left gable wall is ashlar with a pair of narrow windows at first floor. Steep-pitched 2-span roof. Rear is rubble and has a short wing returning from right end. Interior: large stair hall at first floor has an early-C19 stair with ramped handrail and turned newels.

Listing NGR: SP5852022400

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
243543
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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