29 AND 29A, MARKET SQUARE
29 AND 29A, MARKET SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046469
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 29 AND 29A, MARKET SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 29 AND 29A, MARKET SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046469
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 29 AND 29A, MARKET SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 29 AND 29A, 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:
- 29 AND 29A, 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 58480 22344
Details
BICESTER MARKET SQUARE SP5822S (South side) 3/92 Nos.29 and 29A 20/03/70 BY II
Shop and dwelling. Early C18, possibly partly earlier, and early C19. Part-rendered brick, limestone rubble, and chequer brick with yellow headers; plain-tile and Welsh-slate roofs with brick stacks. 4 ranges surrounding a courtyard. 2 storeys plus attics and 2 storeys. No.29, to left, has a rendered 2-window front with a moulded eaves cove and two 12-pane first-floor sashes; the sleep-pitched roof has 2 hipped roof dormers. The taller brick bay to right (No.29A) has a large elaborately-moulded stone-mullioned window at first floor (probably C19), and the moulded dentil cornice continues from that of No.28 (q.v.) to right. C20 shop front extends across both sections. The 2-storey 3-window range to rear of No.29A has a rubble ground floor, above which is early-C19 chequer brickwork with very large sashes. Rubble and brick outbuilding ranges to rear of No.29, probably mostly C18, form the other 2 sides of the courtyard. Interior: No.29 has closely-spaced heavy chamfered beams at ground floor which could be C16/early C17. No.29A originally formed part of Ambrosden House (q.v. No.28) to right. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VI, p.18).
Listing NGR: SP5848022336
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243567
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 18
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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