Barclays Bank
BARCLAYS BANK, 36, MARKET SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200442
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 36, MARKET SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200442
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 36, 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:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 36, 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 58544 22342
Details
BICESTER MARKET SQUARE SP5822S (South side) 3/86 No.36 (Barclays Bank) 20/03/70 GV II
Bank. Early/mid C19 incorporating earlier elements, altered C20. Painted ashlar; rendered walls with stucco dressings; coursed limestone rubble: Welsh-slate and old plain-tile roofs. Main range of 2 builds, much extended to rear. 2 storeys and 3 storeys. 3 ashlar bays to right of front are taller, with storeybands, moulded cornice and 12- and 6-pane sashes to the first and second floors; rusticated ground floor has an arcade of 2 blind round-headed recesses flanking a wide segmental archway containing an elaborately-framed depressed-arched sash with flanking panels and a vertical-sliding external shutter. The carved keyblocks, together with the rustication, band and cornice, are repeated in stucco on the 2-storey 3-window range, to left, which is a later build and contains plain 16-pane sashes plus the main entrance. Shallow-pitched hipped slated roofs are concealed by plain parapets. To rear of the taller section, an earlier rubble building, with a steep-pitched tiled roof, rises out of later single-storey extensions; it is of 2 storeys plus attic and retains casement windows. Interior not inspected. (Buildings of England; Oxfordshire, p.455).
Listing NGR: SP5854322344
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243561
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 455
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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