68 and 70 Vicar Lane

68 and 70 Vicar Lane is a building that forms part of the same warehouse block as No 66, designed by Eli Milnes and constructed in 1866. It occupies a corner site with Currer Street and features four-storey palazzo-style elevations made of sandstone ashlar, rising from a deep blind basement with a platband above. The corner of the building is bowed, and the front facing Currer Street ascends the hill with a slight concave curve, creating an effective contrast with the corner.

On the Vicar Lane side, the basement showcases boldly vermiculated coursing, while the Currer Street elevation has rock-faced panels with deeply grooved coursing in between. The ground floor of the Vicar Lane front features horizontal grooving. Above the ground floor, there is a dentil cornice, sill bands on the upper floors, and a bracketed projecting eaves cornice. The corner is accentuated by grooved pilaster strips, with paneling at the third floor level and cornices that break forward.

The entrance at the corner consists of a tripartite arrangement of archivolt-arched pilastered niches, flanking a similar arched doorway with a head keystone. The door is bowed and includes a fanlight, with large fielded panels situated below the niches. The upper corner windows are tripartite, featuring an architrave surround with consoles on the first floor cornice, similar surrounds without consoles on the second floor, and plain designs on the third floor. The ground floor windows on Vicar Lane are round-arched with grooving struck into the arches, and there is a large round-arched waggonway. The upper floor has plain, closely set windows. The sandstone "brick" elevation on Currer Street includes archivolt-arched ground floor windows linked by an impost string, with plain windows above. This building is significant due to its important corner location.