New Field House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1967. House, chapel. 2 related planning applications.
New Field House
- WRENN ID
- patient-obsidian-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham MP: Luke Akehurst (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1967
- Type
- House, chapel
- Address
- New Field House, Ford Road, Lanchester, DH7 0SP
- OS grid reference
- NZ 168 464
- Coordinates
- 54.81249, -1.73971
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
New Field House, formerly known as Greenwell Ford, is a house that has been partially altered to serve as a private Roman Catholic chapel and is now divided into three flats. It was built in the early 19th century, with chapel alterations made for Matthew Kearney around 1852, and it ceased to be used as a chapel around 1896. The building is constructed from sandstone ashlar with chamfered quoins and has a concrete tiled roof. It is designed in an L-plan and has two storeys with three bays on one side and six bays on the main house side.
The main house features a six-panel door and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars, all set within a Tuscan surround that has a prominent open pediment displaying a coat of arms. There is a similar door and fanlight in the first bay, framed by a keyed round-headed surround. The slightly set-back three-bay chapel has a six-panel door and a plain fanlight, also in a keyed round-headed surround, with Tuscan pilasters supporting an acanthus-patterned entablature. All windows are sashes with glazing bars and projecting stone sills, set in plain reveals. There is a plain narrow sash window to the right of the right door, and a mirror glass window to the right of that. A canted bay window was inserted at the right end around 1900. The building has a gutter cornice and a blocking course, with a low-pitched hipped roof on the right side that features four panelled ridge chimneys with plinths and cornices, along with a left gabled bellcote. Modern drainage pipes are present in the bays flanking the main door.
The right return has five bays, with a central door flanked by pilasters topped with ball finials under a small pediment; it previously had a Tuscan porch that has since been removed. Some glazing bars have been removed from this elevation. The left return gable includes a large first-floor round-headed window with radiating glazing bars in a keyed stone surround, complete with impost mouldings, and a plain stone surround to a blocked door on the ground floor to the right.
There are 20th-century rear additions that are not of interest. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
New Field House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% 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 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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