4, Currer Street

SE 1633 SE 37/441 5111

CURRER STREET BD1 (south side) No 4

GV II

Part of the same block as the Law Russell home trade warehouse at 63 Vicar Lane. Part of the precinct known as "Little Germany". No 4 is one of Eli Milnes's large warehouse cum office palazzo designs built in 1860 and extended 1867, with fronts to Field Street and Vicar Lane. Four-storeys and 3-storeys and basement due to sloping site. Dressed sandstone "brick" with ashlar dressings. Bowed inset corner with Field Street. Rusticated quoin pilasters. Vermiculated courses to ground floor - basement rustication, but plain to Field Street. Plat bands, bracketed sill bands, bed mould to frieze with fielded panels and modillion brackets to projecting moulded eaves cornice. Round arched first floor windows in eared flat surrounds, apron panels flanked by consoles. Radial glazing bars intact to Field Street and Vicar Lane. The entrance is set on corner with Field Street: deeply vermiculated surround; plain ashlar impost band carried in over doorhead; semi-circular fanlight, alternately vermiculated voussoirs to arch and carved spandrels. Tripartite windows above doorway, that on first floor with segmental pediment on consoles. Warehouse waggon archway with ornate iron gates at end of Field Street elevation.

Listing NGR: SE1674533157