37, Market Square

BICESTER MARKET SQUARE SP5822S (South side) 3/85 No.37 20/03/70 GV II

Shop and dwelling, now shop and offices. C18, possibly partly earlier, altered C20. Rendered walls with some stucco dressings; coursed limestone rubble with wooden lintels; Welsh-slate and old plain-tile roofs with rendered end stacks. Double-depth plan with rear wing and linked rear range. 3 storeys and 2 storeys plus attics. Symmetrical 3-window rendered front, with first-floor storeyband and mutilated cornice, has 12-pane sashes except for a central blind window on the top floor; ground floor rebuilt C20. 2-span shallow-pitched hipped roof is concealed by a plain parapet. Rubble rear wing, returning from right, has a steep-pitched tiled roof but is largely concealed by a C20 infill section. A single-storey range links to a rubble range of 2 storeys, plus attics which may be C17 and has a steep-pitched tiled roof. Interior: both floors of rear range have chamfered spine beams. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VI, p.18).

Listing NGR: SP5855222337