Wylam Station and Station-Master's House is a Grade II* listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1972. Station.

Wylam Station and Station-Master's House

WRENN ID
odd-copper-honey
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 February 1972
Type
Station
Address
Wylam Station and Station-Master's House, Station Road
OS grid reference
NZ 120 644
Coordinates
54.97489, -1.81393
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wylam Station and the Station-Master's House were built in 1835 and are notable examples of early railway architecture. The station, constructed from ashlar stone with a Welsh slate roof, features a single-storey design. On the left side, there is a recessed veranda at the center, supported by two cast-iron Tuscan columns. The ticket office on the right retains its original ticket window, which has a segmental arch and a decorative iron grille. It also includes two large windows and a door with chamfered alternating-block surrounds, although these are now boarded up. The waiting room, partially filling the left side of the veranda, has two windows in similar boarded surrounds and two 16-pane sash windows at the rear. The roof is hipped and has a central corniced stone chimney.

Attached to the right is the Station-Master's House, designed in the Tudor style. This two-storey building has three bays and a central doorway with a double-chamfered surround. The ground floor features two-light windows with similar surrounds, which are adorned with hoodmoulds. The center window on the first floor is set in a gabled oriel supported by rounded wood corbels. The gutter is held up by rounded stone corbels, and the gabled roof has rendered brick end stacks on stone corniced bases, also supported by stone corbels.

Wylam Station is recognized as one of the earliest stations in the world still in use for passenger services, and it is included in the heritage register primarily for its historical significance.

Local climate

Wylam Station and Station-Master's House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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