Gem House and Messrs Reid and Company is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Shop and offices. 1 related planning application.
Gem House and Messrs Reid and Company
- WRENN ID
- lesser-stair-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Shop and offices
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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NZ 2464 SE 20/112
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE BLACKETT STREET (south side) Nos 23, 25 and 27 (Gem House and Messrs. Reid and Co.)
G.V. II
Shop and offices. 1904 by Newcombe and Newcombe for Robert Herron; circa 1906 shop for Reid and Sons. Sandstone ashlar; slate roof. Free style with art-nouveau shop details. Four storeys and attics; two wide bays. Shop has curved windows to recessed entrance and scrolled brass name plaques below windows; flowing glazing bars to window heads and to mirror soffit; much carved ornament to two recessed doors. Bracketed fascia below two wide shallow bows with pilasters of different Orders on each floor, Roman Doric, Ionic and Corinthian framing three sashes in each bow. Serpentine dentilled top cornice. Roof balustrade with tall spike finials. Two wide attic windows of 3 sashes in pilasters under scrolled pediments. Mansard roof.
Listing NGR: NZ2490364439
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