20, Market Square is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 March 1970. Shop, dwelling. 1 related planning application.
20, Market Square
- WRENN ID
- moated-sandstone-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 March 1970
- Type
- Shop, dwelling
- Address
- 20, Market Square, Bicester, OX26 6AD
- OS grid reference
- SP 584 223
- Coordinates
- 51.89696, -1.15135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 20 Market Square is a shop and dwelling built in the early 18th century. It features a combination of colourwashed limestone rubble and brick, topped with a plain-tile roof. The building consists of a main range and a short rear wing, standing two storeys high with attics. The front façade is brick at the first floor and includes a large central 20th-century window along with a deep moulded plaster eaves cove. To the far left of the modern shop front, there is a narrow section of rubble walling with a shaped oak bracket attached to a bressumer. The steep-pitched roof is adorned with two flat-headed roof dormers that have moulded cornices. The left end wall of the rubble returns to the short contemporary rear wing. The interior has not been inspected, and the 20th-century rear extension is not considered to have special architectural interest.
Local climate
20, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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