Barclays Bank

BICESTER MARKET SQUARE SP5822S (South side) 3/86 No.36 (Barclays Bank) 20/03/70 GV II

Bank. Early/mid C19 incorporating earlier elements, altered C20. Painted ashlar; rendered walls with stucco dressings; coursed limestone rubble: Welsh-slate and old plain-tile roofs. Main range of 2 builds, much extended to rear. 2 storeys and 3 storeys. 3 ashlar bays to right of front are taller, with storeybands, moulded cornice and 12- and 6-pane sashes to the first and second floors; rusticated ground floor has an arcade of 2 blind round-headed recesses flanking a wide segmental archway containing an elaborately-framed depressed-arched sash with flanking panels and a vertical-sliding external shutter. The carved keyblocks, together with the rustication, band and cornice, are repeated in stucco on the 2-storey 3-window range, to left, which is a later build and contains plain 16-pane sashes plus the main entrance. Shallow-pitched hipped slated roofs are concealed by plain parapets. To rear of the taller section, an earlier rubble building, with a steep-pitched tiled roof, rises out of later single-storey extensions; it is of 2 storeys plus attic and retains casement windows. Interior not inspected. (Buildings of England; Oxfordshire, p.455).

Listing NGR: SP5854322344