22 and 23, Market Square is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 March 1970. Shops, dwellings. 3 related planning applications.
22 and 23, Market Square
- WRENN ID
- inner-kitchen-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 March 1970
- Type
- Shops, dwellings
- Address
- 22 and 23, Market Square, Bicester, OX26 6AD
- OS grid reference
- SP 584 223
- Coordinates
- 51.89686, -1.15157
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
22 and 23 Market Square are two shops and dwellings dating from the early 19th century, with possible earlier elements. The buildings feature rendered walls with stucco dressings, limestone rubble, and Welsh-slate roofs with brick stacks. They are linked ranges with rear wings.
No. 22 has a two-storey stuccoed front with two windows, rusticated quoins, and a deep moulded cornice. It features tall first-floor windows with 20th-century frames and a shop front that retains flanking carved consoles and a cornice above the fascia, along with wide arched spandrelled heads to the windows.
No. 23, to the left, has a narrow three-storey stuccoed front with a cornice that breaks around full-height pilaster strips and a low parapet connecting with No. 22. The first floor includes a canted bay window, while the second floor has a segmental-arched 16-pane sash window. The ground-floor shop front features a 19th-century bay window with spandrelled arched heads and a projecting fascia on carved consoles with a moulded cornice. The roof is shallow-pitched and hipped to the left. The rear wings are constructed of rubble. The interiors have not been inspected.
Local climate
22 and 23, 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 — 3 applications
- 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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