WYLAM FORGE

WYLAM FORGE, WEST VIEW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1155062
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1975
List Entry Name:: WYLAM FORGE
Statutory Address:: WYLAM FORGE, WEST VIEW

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Date:: 2006-11-09
Reference:: IOE01/14976/16
Rights:: © Mr John Hogg. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1155062
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1975
List Entry Name:: WYLAM FORGE
Statutory Address 1:: WYLAM FORGE, WEST VIEW

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WYLAM FORGE, WEST VIEW

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 11756 64555

Details

The following building shall be down graded from grade II* (star) to grade II.

NZ 16 SW WYLAM WEST VIEW

19/160 Wylam Forge 11/9/75 II

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NZ 16 SW WYLAM WEST VIEW

19/160 Wylam Forge

11/9/75 II*

Formerly forge, part of workshops at Wylam Colliery, now part of garage. Late C18 or early C19. Random rubble with pantile and asbestos roof. Single storey. 2 rooms. Left room has window with old brick sill and no frame. Double entry to right also without door. Right room has central double doors and large flanking shuttered windows with old brick sills. Blacksmith's window on left return and Yorkshire sash to rear. Gabled roof.

The last remaining part of the buildings where William Hedley built Puffing Billy and Wylam Dilly.

Included for historical interest.

Timothy Hackworth, John Foster and William Hedley built the first Wylam engine in 1811, the first properly useful steam locomotive, followed by the preserved puffing Billy and Wylam DIlly in 1814-15.

Listing NGR: NZ1175664555

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 239533
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.