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George Stephenson's Cottage (Wylam)

George Stephenson's Cottage, Wylam.
Photo by Harry Rowland.
George Stephenson's Cottage, Wylam. Photo by Harry Rowland.
George Stephenson's Cottage, Grade II*. House. 18th century. Random rubble partly rendered. Pantile above stone slate menu. Central plank door. Flanking twelve-pane Yorkshire sashes. Small six-pane window above door. Continuous outshut to rear has 20th century windows. Steeply-pitched gabled roof edged by stone slates. Thin raised coping and two rebuilt brick end stacks. Plaque on front wall records birth here of George Stephenson on June 9th 1781. (1)

George Stephenson's birthplace, 1781. Built c.1750. Given to National Trust in 1949. (2)(3)

The cottage is noted in passing alongside the Wylam Wagonway, later the Scotswood, Newburn and Wylam Railway. The house was called Street House at the time of George Stephenson's birth. (4)

NZ 1258 6499. Stephenson's Cottage (NAT) (5a)
N10914
Post Medieval (1540 to 1901)
Listed Building


Source of Reference
Local History of Wylam

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