72 Vicar Lane and 9 Currer Street

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SE 1633 SE 37/1154

VICAR LANE (north-east side) BD1 No 72

GV II

Includes No 9 Currer street. Home trade warehouse block designed by Eli Milnes 1864. Corner site with Currer Street. Three-storeys with semi-basement to Vicar Lane. Tall sandstone "brick" palazzo elevations with ashlar dressings. Ashlar faced bowed corner. Rock faced coursing to semi-basement. Long facade, ascending hill to Currer Street. Platband below ground floor, string course and sill bands to upper floors, projecting bracketed eaves corner. The ground floor of corner has alternate vermiculated courses, flanking vermiculated pilaster strips continued in grooved ashlar up to eaves cornice. Ground floor treated as piano nobile, the windows set in stilted archivolt segmental arched arcade, linking impost string, panels below sills. Plain windows to upper floors. On corner the ground floor string course is fluted and is carried in over lower rectangular fanlight of doorway, with addition of leaf carved string. Semi-circular fanlight above this with alternately vermiculated voussoirs and sheep's head keystone with rinceaux horns. Oval window above flanked by oval plaques. Drip mould overall with scrolled keystone. Tripartite second floor window, the centre light arched and the eaves cornice curved up over it. Important corner site.

Listing NGR: SE1675633208