Number 8 Including Former Magistrates Courthouse
NUMBER 8 INCLUDING FORMER MAGISTRATES COURTHOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046482
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Number 8 Including Former Magistrates Courthouse
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 8 INCLUDING FORMER MAGISTRATES COURTHOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046482
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Number 8 Including Former Magistrates Courthouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 8 INCLUDING FORMER MAGISTRATES COURTHOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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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.
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:
- NUMBER 8 INCLUDING FORMER MAGISTRATES COURTHOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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 58312 22325
Details
BICESTER CHURCH STREET SP5822S (North side) 3/18 No.8 including former 22/07/76 Magistrates Courthouse (Formerly listed as No.8 (Magistrate's Courthouse and County Police)) GV II
Former police station and courthouse. 1857 on datestone; courthouse probably later. Coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings and brick; Welsh-slate roofs with stone stacks. L-shaped group. 2-storey police station has a 4-window front, the gabled right bay with a 4-pane segmental-headed sash above a segmental-arched carriage entrance; other bays have similar but larger sashes to each floor, and between bays one and 2 is a segmental-arched doorway with overlight. Doorway and carriage entry retain studded doors. A simple stone cornice conceals the eaves gutter, and the front gable contains a plaque inscribed "COUNTY/POLICE/1857". Rear is stone with brick dressings. Gable-fronted single-storey courthouse, to right, is linked by a short range containing a large doorway and a window, both in chamfered stone surrounds. Gabled section contains a pair of tall 18-pane sashes with similar surrounds and relieving arches, and there is a round opening in the gable. Gable parapet has gabled kneelers. Long brick-fronted wing to rear of courtroom retains two 20-pane sashes and some other original openings, but is much altered and was raised to 2 storeys, probably in early C20. Interiors not inspected. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VI, p.19).
Listing NGR: SP5830922332
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243493
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 19
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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