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72 Vicar Lane and 9 Currer Street

A Grade II Listed Building in City, Bradford

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Latitude: 53.7949 / 53°47'41"N

Longitude: -1.7471 / 1°44'49"W

OS Eastings: 416756

OS Northings: 433208

OS Grid: SE167332

Mapcode National: GBR JLK.C6

Mapcode Global: WHC99.4W93

Plus Code: 9C5WQ7V3+X5

Entry Name: 72 Vicar Lane and 9 Currer Street

Listing Date: 9 August 1983

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1290792

English Heritage Legacy ID: 337283

Also known as: 9 Currer Street

ID on this website: 101290792

Location: Eastbrook, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD1

County: Bradford

Electoral Ward/Division: City

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bradford

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Cathedral Church of St Peter Bradford

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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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

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