Gem House and Messrs Reid and Company
Gem House and Messrs Reid and Company, 23, 25 and 27, Blackett Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355232
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gem House and Messrs Reid and Company
- Statutory Address:
- Gem House and Messrs Reid and Company, 23, 25 and 27, Blackett Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355232
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gem House and Messrs Reid and Company
- Statutory Address 1:
- Gem House and Messrs Reid and Company, 23, 25 and 27, Blackett Street
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Gem House and Messrs Reid and Company, 23, 25 and 27, Blackett Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 24903 64439
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 31 October 2025 to amend details in the description and to reformat text to current standards
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304417
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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