24, Sheep Street

BICESTER SHEEP STREET SP5822N, SP5822S (East side) 2/106, 3/106 No. 24 20/03/70 GV II

House, now shop and dwelling. 1689 on datestone, remodelled and extended mid C19. Rendered walls with stucco dressings; brick and limestone rubble; plain-tile and Welsh-slate roofs. 2 parallel ranges plus long rear wing. 2 storeys plus attics and 2 storeys. Rendered 3-window front has a plain parapet, with ball finials, rising from a moulded band, and has first-floor casements with eared architraves and triangular pediments above panelled friezes, probably all C19. The short right return wall to No.22 (not included) has a similar window. Ground floor is mostly a shop front, but to extreme left is a section of rusticated walling containing a large 6-panelled doorway, above which is a datestone inscribed "R/IM/1689". Steep-pitched roof with a shallower slated roof to rear. Rear is mostly C19 but rear range incorporates the gable of a former stair projection. Rubble and brick rear wing is of several builds. Interior: chamfered beams in alleyway. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.456).

Listing NGR: SP5854622496