72 Vicar Lane and 9 Currer Street is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1983. Warehouse.

72 Vicar Lane and 9 Currer Street

WRENN ID
empty-portal-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Constituency
Bradford West MP: Naz Shah (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1983
Type
Warehouse
OS grid reference
SE 167 332
Coordinates
53.79493, -1.74712
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

72 Vicar Lane and 9 Currer Street is a building designed by Eli Milnes in 1864, serving as a home trade warehouse block. It occupies a prominent corner site with Currer Street and features three storeys along with a semi-basement on Vicar Lane. The building has tall sandstone "brick" palazzo elevations with ashlar dressings, including an ashlar-faced bowed corner and rock-faced coursing at the semi-basement level. The long facade rises as it ascends the hill towards Currer Street.

Notable architectural details include a platband below the ground floor, string courses, and sill bands on the upper floors, along with projecting bracketed eaves at the corner. The ground floor is treated as a piano nobile, featuring windows set in a stilted archivolt segmental arched arcade, linked by an impost string with panels below the sills. The upper floors have plain windows.

On the corner, the ground floor string course is fluted and extends over a lower rectangular fanlight of the doorway, which is enhanced by a leaf-carved string. Above this, a semi-circular fanlight is adorned with alternately vermiculated voussoirs and a sheep's head keystone with rinceaux horns. An oval window above is flanked by oval plaques, and a drip moulding with a scrolled keystone completes the design. The tripartite second-floor window features an arched centre light, with the eaves cornice curving up over it. This building is an important feature of the corner site.

Local climate

72 Vicar Lane and 9 Currer Street receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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