39, Market Square is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 March 1970. Shop, office.
39, Market Square
- WRENN ID
- pitched-gallery-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 March 1970
- Type
- Shop, office
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BICESTER MARKET SQUARE SP5822S (South side) 3/83 No.39 20/03/70 GV II
Shop and dwelling, now offices. Late C16/early C17. Roughcast timber framing; old plain-tile roof with rubble and brick end stack. 2-unit gable-fronted plan. 2 storeys plus attics. Front has renewed 2- and 3-light casements to the upper floors plus a C20 shop window and entrance. Left return wall retains a horizontal-sliding sash with old glazing, and has a 4-panel door and C20 shop window. To rear of steep-pitched roof is a massive rubble-based stack, probably shared with No.40, Kings Arms Hotel (q.v.), with 3 rebuilt diagonal shafts. Interior: massive stop-chamfered beams with heavy square joists; winder stair from cellar to attics; some 2-panel doors and a fragment of C17 panelling; butt-purlin roof with curved windbraces. Possibly originally part of Kings arms Hotel. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, p.455).
Listing NGR: SP5857022340
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