44, Market Square

BICESTER MARKET SQUARE SP5822S 3/62 No.44 20/03/70 GV II

Shown as Nos.44 and 53 on Ordnance Survey map. Shop and dwelling. Probably C17, remodelled early C18 and C19. Rendered timber framing with stucco dressings; lead flat roof with rendered stacks. Single range. 3 storeys. 3 fronts of 2, 5 and 2 windows, all with a heavy moulded wooden cornice, rusticated vermiculated quoins and architraved C19 sashes with similar quoins and stucco wedge lintels. West front and part of north front retain a first-floor jetty and have a shaped bracket at the angle, a canted ground-floor bay window to north and, to west, a C20 doorway with stucco quoins. Interior: some fielded panelling at ground and first floors; upper floors have 2-panelled doors and an early-C18 open-well stair with winders, moulded closed string and handrail, and turned balusters. Probably originally a substantial townhouse. With Nos.45 and 52 (q.v.), forms a prominent group on an island site. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VI, p.18).

Listing NGR: SP5854522387