Claremont House
CLAREMONT HOUSE, 1, MARKET SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369791
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Claremont House
- Statutory Address:
- CLAREMONT HOUSE, 1, MARKET SQUARE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/13877/24
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369791
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Claremont House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLAREMONT HOUSE, 1, 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:
- CLAREMONT HOUSE, 1, 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 58605 22352
Details
BICESTER MARKET SQUARE SP5822S (East side) 3/81 No.1 (Claremont House) 20/03/70 GV II
House, now shop and dwelling. Early C19. Rendered walls; Welsh-slate roof with rendered end stacks. Main range plus rear wing. 3 storeys plus attic. 3-window front has first-floor storeyband, cornice and plain parapet, which break around flanking projections; 4-pane sashes are taller at first floor than at second floor, but all have scalloped blind cases. Ground floor has a C20 shop front, an altered entry to an alleyway and, to extreme right, an arched doorway with a 6-panel door. Mansard roof has 3 dormers. Rear has further sashes to 4 floors. Interior: alleyway has a groined plaster vault; apsidal stair hall has a sweeping cantilevered stair, rising to the third floor, with a wreathed mahogany handrail and stick balusters. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VI, p.18).
Listing NGR: SP5860722353
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243556
- 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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