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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26298626

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