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. 2 related planning applications.
Gem House and Messrs Reid and Company
- WRENN ID
- lesser-stair-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West MP: Dame Chi Onwurah (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Shop and offices
- Address
- Gem House and Messrs Reid and Company, 23, 25 and 27, Blackett Street, NE1 5BS
- OS grid reference
- NZ 249 644
- Coordinates
- 54.97396, -1.6125
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gem House and Messrs Reid and Company is a shop and office building constructed in 1904 by Newcombe and Newcombe for Robert Herron, with a shop for Reid and Sons added around 1906. It is built of sandstone ashlar and features a slate roof. The design is in a free style with art-nouveau shop details. The building has four storeys and attics, with two wide bays. The shop includes curved windows leading to a recessed entrance, scrolled brass name plaques beneath the windows, and flowing glazing bars to the window heads and mirror soffit. There is extensive carved ornamentation on the two recessed doors. A bracketed fascia is positioned below two wide shallow bows, which have pilasters of different architectural orders on each floor—Roman Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian—framing three sash windows in each bow. The top cornice is serpentine and dentilled, and the roof features a balustrade with tall spike finials. There are two wide attic windows with three sashes in pilasters, topped with scrolled pediments, and the building has a mansard roof.
Local climate
Gem House and Messrs Reid and Company receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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