Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26426141

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)