Image The building is Grade II* listed http://list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1024923 . The building can be seen behind and to the left of Grey's Monument in Image The Buildings of Grainger Town - No.46. See Image."> Emerson Chambers, Blackett Street, NE1
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Emerson Chambers, Blackett Street, NE1

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Emerson Chambers, Blackett Street, NE1

Image: © Mike Quinn Taken: 2 May 2013

Built c 1903; by Simpson, Lawson and Rayne. The Tyne and Wear Historic Environment Record (HER) (8896) says "A glorious confection of canted oriels, strapwork and friezes, balconies and domed turrets, dormers and light roof-lights with high pyramidal roofs and high corniced chimneys. Fat Ionic columns of granite with bronze decoration and capitals at the central ground-floor projection, and fine restored Art Nouveau glazing bars" http://www.twsitelines.info/node/113077 . See also Image The building is Grade II* listed http://list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1024923 . The building can be seen behind and to the left of Grey's Monument in Image The Buildings of Grainger Town - No.46. See Image

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Image Location

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Latitude
54.97405
Longitude
-1.613633