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© Mr Erik Borg
IoE Number:
239530
Location:
WYLAM STATION AND STATION-MASTER'S HOUSE, STATION ROAD
WYLAM, TYNEDALE, NORTHUMBERLAND
Photographer:
Mr Erik Borg
Date Photographed:
30 June 2001
Date listed:
17 February 1972
Date of last amendment:
17 February 1972
Grade
II*
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NZ 16 SW WYLAM STATION ROAD
19/157 Wylam Station and
17/2/72 Station-Master's House
GV II*
Station and station-master's house. 1835. Ashlar with Welsh slate roof.
Single-storey station on left has recessed veranda in centre with roof supported
on 2 cast-iron Tuscan columns. Ticket office on right has original ticket
window with segmental arch and decorative iron grille; also 2 large windows and
a door in chamfered alternating-block surrounds, now boarded up. Waiting room
partly filling left side of veranda has 2 windows in similar surrounds also
boarded up and two 16-pane sashes to rear. Hipped roof with central corniced
stone chimney.
Station-master's house attached to right in Tudor style. 2 storeys, 3 bays with
central doorway in double-chamfered surround. 2-light windows in similar
surrounds, those on ground floor under hoodmoulds. 1st floor centre window is
in gabled oriel on rounded wood corbels. Gutter is supported on rounded stone
corbels. Gabled roof with rendered brick end stacks on stone corniced bases,
supported on stone corbels.
One of the earliest stations in the world still in passenger use. Included
mainly for historical value.