Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8 June 2021 to reformat text to current standards

SE 1633 SE
37/1151

VICAR LANE (south-east side) BD1
No 64

GV
II

Includes Nos 2 and 4 Hick Street. Circa 1871-75, large five-storey warehouse/office block with long return front to Hick Street. Sandstone ashlar. Twelve bays to Vicar Lane. Ground floor articulated by corniced piers with fielded blocks to shafts. Doric consoles to frieze and bold cornice over. Deep grooving between basement and ground floor windows. Paired large waggonway and office portal to right hand. The doorway is flanked by columns with similar blocking to shafts rising from panelled pedestals. The flat linteled waggonway has fine geometrical patterned iron gates. Similar detail to waggonway and gates at far end of Hick Street front and to portal off centre. The first floor windows have flat eared surrounds with incised ornament. Plain windows to upper floors on sill bands. Bed mould to both, carved console bracket eaves cornice. Tall bracket corniced chimneys.

Listing NGR: SE1679433126

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26600581

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)