22 And 23, Market Square

BICESTER MARKET SQUARE SP5822S (North side) 3/74 Nos.22 and 23 20/03/70 GV II

2 shops and dwellings. Early C19, possibly partly earlier. Rendered walls with stucco dressings; limestone rubble; Welsh-slate roofs with brick stacks. Linked ranges with rear wings. 2-storey stuccoed 2-window front of No.22, with rusticated quoins and a deep moulded cornice, has tall first-floor windows with C20 frames, and a shop front retaining flanking carved consoles and a cornice to the fascia, plus wide arched spandrelled heads to the windows. Narrow 3-storey stuccoed front of No.23, to left, also has a cornice which breaks around full-height pilaster strips, and a low parapet linking with that of No.22; first floor has a canted bay window, and at second floor is a segmental-arched 16-pane sash. Ground-floor shop front has a C19 bay window with spandrelled arched heads, plus a projecting fascia on carved consoles with a moulded cornice. Shallow-pitched roof is hipped to left. Rear wings are both of rubble. Interiors not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP5847722379