Draft Bicester Conservation Area Appraisal November 2009

9.7 North Street character areaThis is the northern entrance to the towncentre, a linear route which leads visuallystraight into Sheep Street. The NorthStreet frontage lacks the coherence ofother streets, because it is composed of avariety of building ages, styles, materialsand uses and it also contains gaps in thefrontage created by vacant plots andminor vehicular accesses.Buildings range from timber framedlimestone rubble cottages at the northernend of North Street to red brick Victorianterraces at the start of Buckingham Roadand Field Street. Some buildings such asThe Plough public house and 31 NorthStreet retain small outbuildings to therear.Buckingham Road vehicle accessTwitchers AlleyIllustration of good and bad shop fronts from the Council Design Guide45