2, LONDON ROAD
2, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200133
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 2, LONDON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 2, LONDON ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200133
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 2, LONDON ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, LONDON ROAD
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:
- 2, LONDON ROAD
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 58590 22306
Details
BICESTER LONDON ROAD SP5822S (West side) 3/58 No.2 31/01/52 GV II
House, now part of hotel. Early/mid c17, altered C20; C18, limestone rubble with wooden lintels; old plain-tile root with rubble-and-brick ridge stack. 3-unit plan with rear service wing. 2 storeys plus attics and 2 storeys. 3-gabled 3-window front retains wooden ovolo-moulded mullioned-and-transomed windows at first floor, but at ground floor has a large inserted vehicular entrance, a C20 doorway, a C20 bay window, and a deep 3-light casement with a rendered wedge lintel which is probably C19. Gable windows are blocked except for a 2-light casement in the left gable. Massive rubble-based stack, to right of centre, has 3 diagonal brick shafts. Central gable to rear. Lower rear wing, returning on right, is probably mostly C18 but extends from a short C17 gabled wing; it has 2 plank doors, casements and a C19 brick external stair leading to an upper door. Interior not inspected. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VI, p.18; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.456).
Listing NGR: SP5864922277
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243533
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 18
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 456
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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