The Old Court House
THE OLD COURT HOUSE, 5, SHEEP STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200571
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Court House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD COURT HOUSE, 5, SHEEP STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200571
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Court House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD COURT HOUSE, 5, SHEEP STREET
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:
- THE OLD COURT HOUSE, 5, SHEEP 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 58533 22434
Details
BICESTER SHEEP STREET SP5822S (West side) 3/114 No.5 (The Old Court House) GV II
Court house, now offices. 1864. Coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings; banded Welsh- and Westmorland-slate roofs with stone stacks. Main range plus rear wing. Gothic style. 2 storeys, now further divided. 4-window front has the entrance to extreme right - a Caernarvon-arched doorway within a pointed-segmental arch with a carved and traceried tympanum - above which is a carved royal arms, and a single-light window, also with a Caernarvon head within a pointed-segmental arch. The other bays all have 3-light stone-mullioned windows with Caernavron heads, the continuous label mould linked to that over the doorway, and running between carved grotesques; at first floor, are tall 2-light windows in pointed-segmental arches with foliage labels stops, all with trefoil-headed lights and central roundels. The tall steep-pitched roof, with crested ridge tiles and 3 triangular dormer ventilators, has large stepped gable parapets plus a similar but smaller gable over the entrance bay. The left main gable contains a large rose window below a pointed-segmental arch. Rear has similar first-floor windows plus a tall lateral stack. Short rear wing returns on left. Interior: arch-braced collar-truss roof with pierced spandrels, the posts springing from stone corbels carved with faces and stiff-leaf foliage. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VI, p.19; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.456).
Listing NGR: SP5853222433
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243589
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 19
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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