45 And 52, Market Square

BICESTER MARKET SQUARE SP5822S 3/63 Nos.45 and 52 20/03/70 GV II

2 shops and dwellings. Late C17/early C18 and C18/early C19. Rendered light timber framing; Welsh-slate roofs with brick stacks. Gable-fronted plans, back to back. Narrow 3-storey front of No.45, facing east, has a tripartite sash at first floor, a 4-pane sash above, and has narrow sashes in the cant to left (all C19); C20 shop front; roof is hipped to front; 4-storey gabled front of No.52, facing west, is probably earlier at ground and first floors, and has a moulded wooden cornice above the renewed 4-light first-floor casement, above which the front wall is set back with further renewed casements; early-C20 shop front, Buildings both back onto a C17 stack with diagonal shafts, rising from a lower roofline. Interior: No.52 has a winder stair, and at first floor has intersecting chamfered beams and some elaborate bolection-mould panelling on the window wall. With No.44 (q.v.), forms a prominent group on an island site.

Listing NGR: SP5855322384