Wylam Hall
WYLAM HALL, OVINGHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1044924
- Date first listed:
- 07-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Wylam Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WYLAM HALL, OVINGHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1044924
- Date first listed:
- 07-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Wylam Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WYLAM HALL, OVINGHAM ROAD
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:
- WYLAM HALL, OVINGHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wylam
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 11129 64622
Details
NZ 16 SW WYLAM OVINGHAM ROAD
19/154 Wylam Hall
II*
House, now subdivided into 3 apartments. C15 altered in C18 and several periods up to late C19. Older parts random rubble, late C19 parts ashlar. Welsh slate roofs. Rambling irregular plan. Garden front has doorway with bolection- moulded eared surround, cornice and pulvinated frieze on stone consoles, and swan-neck pediment. C20 French window to right. Small C15 window to left. On 1st floor 4 renewed 12-pane sashes in architraves with moulded sills and wedge lintels, above architraves grooved in imitation of voussoirs. Left of this the stump of a demolished wing, and left again the Victorian addition with projecting chimney and 2-light mullioned windows. Rear of this block has pointed- arch staircase window with intersecting glazing bars. Rear wings have various windows C17 - C20.
Gabled roofs. C15 block has flat coping with kneelers; and C17 finials with roll moulding and obelisks on right gable. One stone gable stack, one tall brick chimney and many C19 brick stacks.
Interior of C15 block has walls 5 - 6 feet thick and a tunnel-vaulted ground floor 62 feet long with a mural chamber on south side. Ceiling of vault given plaster rib vault with, in parts, triple shafted pilasters and Gothick capitals; probably c1820 and altered later. Circular iron Gothick staircase with pointed arches between square balusters, also c1820.
Attached to rear of C15 block is arcade of four C17/early C18 round brick arches.
House belonged to Tynemouth Priory C12 - C15. The drive was used by George Stephenson for early experiments in making steam engines run uphill without rack and pinion.
Newcastle upon Tyne Society of Antiquaries: Feb. 1914.
Listing NGR: NZ1112964622
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 239527
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle Upon Tyne in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle Upon Tyne, (1914)
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle Upon Tyne in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle Upon Tyne, (1914)
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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