22 AND 23, MARKET SQUARE
22 AND 23, MARKET SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046463
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 22 AND 23, MARKET SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 22 AND 23, MARKET SQUARE
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- Date:
- 1999-08-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/00236/05
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046463
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 22 AND 23, MARKET SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 22 AND 23, 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:
- 22 AND 23, 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 58476 22373
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243549
- 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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