Wylam Hall

Wylam Hall is a house, now divided into three apartments, dating back to the 15th century, with significant alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The older sections are constructed from random rubble, while later additions are faced with ashlar. The roofs are covered with Welsh slate. The building has a sprawling, irregular layout.

The front of the house features a doorway with a moulded surround, a cornice, a pulvinated frieze supported by stone consoles, and a swan-neck pediment. A 20th-century French window is located to the right of the doorway, and a small 15th-century window is on the left. The first floor has four renewed 12-pane sash windows, set within architraves with moulded sills and wedge lintels; the architraves are grooved to resemble voussoirs. To the left of the sashes is the partial remains of a demolished wing, and beyond that a Victorian addition featuring a projecting chimney and two-light mullioned windows. The rear of the Victorian block includes a pointed-arch staircase window with intersecting glazing bars. Various windows, dating from the 17th to the 20th centuries, are found on the rear wings.

The roofs have gables, with the 15th-century block featuring flat coping with kneelers and 17th-century finials with roll moulding and obelisks on the right-hand gable. Chimneys include one stone stack, one tall brick chimney, and numerous 19th-century brick stacks.

Inside the 15th-century section, the walls are 5 to 6 feet thick, enclosing a long, tunnel-vaulted ground floor, 62 feet in length and containing a mural chamber on the south side. The ceiling of the vault has a plaster rib vault, with triple shafted pilasters and Gothic capitals, likely dating from around 1820 and subsequently altered. A circular iron staircase with pointed arches and square balusters, also from around 1820, is also present.

Attached to the rear of the 15th-century block is an arcade composed of four round brick arches, dating from the 17th or early 18th century.

The house was historically associated with Tynemouth Priory from the 12th to the 15th centuries. The property's driveway was famously used by George Stephenson for early experiments involving steam engines running uphill.