37, Market Square is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 March 1970. Shop and dwelling.
37, Market Square
- WRENN ID
- eternal-nave-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 March 1970
- Type
- Shop and dwelling
- Address
- 37, Market Square, Bicester
- OS grid reference
- SP 585 223
- Coordinates
- 51.89656, -1.15041
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
37 Market Square is a shop and dwelling, now serving as a shop and offices. It dates from the 18th century, with possible earlier elements, and was altered in the 20th century. The building features rendered walls with some stucco dressings, coursed limestone rubble with wooden lintels, and roofs made of Welsh slate and old plain tiles, topped with rendered end stacks. It has a double-depth plan with a rear wing and a linked rear range, standing three storeys high at the front and two storeys plus attics at the rear.
The symmetrical front has three windows, with a rendered finish, a first-floor storey band, and a mutilated cornice. The windows are 12-pane sashes, except for a central blind window on the top floor. The ground floor was rebuilt in the 20th century. The building has a two-span, shallow-pitched hipped roof that is concealed by a plain parapet. The rubble rear wing, which extends from the right, has a steep-pitched tiled roof but is mostly hidden by a 20th-century infill section. A single-storey range connects to a two-storey rubble range, which may date from the 17th century and features a steep-pitched tiled roof. Inside, both floors of the rear range have chamfered spine beams.
Local climate
37, Market Square sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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