Ambrosden House Lairg House
AMBROSDEN HOUSE, 28, MARKET SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300762
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Ambrosden House Lairg House
- Statutory Address:
- AMBROSDEN HOUSE, 28, MARKET SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300762
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Ambrosden House Lairg House
- Statutory Address 1:
- AMBROSDEN HOUSE, 28, MARKET SQUARE
- Statutory Address 2:
- LAIRG HOUSE, 28, CHAPEL STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- LAIRG HOUSE, 28, 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:
- AMBROSDEN HOUSE, 28, MARKET SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- LAIRG HOUSE, 28, CHAPEL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- LAIRG HOUSE, 28, 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 58467 22338
Details
BICESTER MARKET SQUARE SP5822S (South side) 3/93 No.28 (Ambrosden House and 31/01/52 Lairg House) GV II
Substantial town house, now shop and dwelling. Early C18, altered. Colourwashed brick and coursed squared limestone; old plain-tile roofs with brick stacks. Main range plus rear service wings. 2 storeys plus attic and 2 storeys. 6-window brick front, with moulded dentil course, has 12-pane sashes at first floor plus a C20 shop front. Roof has 3 flat-headed roof dormers and is hipped to right, the cornice returning over the angled rubble end wall which has a first-floor sash plus a blocked window below. Lower 3-window rubble rear wing, returning on right was probably remodelled C19 but retains a datestone inscribed "H/RG/1688"; it has 4-pane sashes, segmental-arched at ground floor, plus an inserted doorway. Further 2-storey ranges, parallel to the main range and the wing, are in C18 chequer brick with sash windows and a storey band. Interior not inspected. Ambrosden House formerly included No.29A (q.v.) to left. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VI, p.18).
Listing NGR: SP5846522340
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243568
- 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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