29 And 29A, Market Square

BICESTER MARKET SQUARE SP5822S (South side) 3/92 Nos.29 and 29A 20/03/70 BY II

Shop and dwelling. Early C18, possibly partly earlier, and early C19. Part-rendered brick, limestone rubble, and chequer brick with yellow headers; plain-tile and Welsh-slate roofs with brick stacks. 4 ranges surrounding a courtyard. 2 storeys plus attics and 2 storeys. No.29, to left, has a rendered 2-window front with a moulded eaves cove and two 12-pane first-floor sashes; the sleep-pitched roof has 2 hipped roof dormers. The taller brick bay to right (No.29A) has a large elaborately-moulded stone-mullioned window at first floor (probably C19), and the moulded dentil cornice continues from that of No.28 (q.v.) to right. C20 shop front extends across both sections. The 2-storey 3-window range to rear of No.29A has a rubble ground floor, above which is early-C19 chequer brickwork with very large sashes. Rubble and brick outbuilding ranges to rear of No.29, probably mostly C18, form the other 2 sides of the courtyard. Interior: No.29 has closely-spaced heavy chamfered beams at ground floor which could be C16/early C17. No.29A originally formed part of Ambrosden House (q.v. No.28) to right. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VI, p.18).

Listing NGR: SP5848022336