Prospect House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. House.
Prospect House
- WRENN ID
- hidden-outpost-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham MP: Luke Akehurst (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Prospect House, Ford Road, Lanchester
- OS grid reference
- NZ 164 472
- Coordinates
- 54.82002, -1.74492
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Prospect House is an early 19th-century house located on Lanchester Ford Road. It is constructed from coursed squared sandstone rubble, featuring quoins and painted tooled ashlar dressings. The roof is stone-flagged, with stone gable copings and an ashlar chimney.
The house is two storeys high and has three bays, with a right extension that has two lower storeys and two bays. The central entrance consists of a partly-glazed door with an overlight that has geometric glazing bars, set within a plain surround with corner blocks and a bracketed pediment-shaped hood. The windows are 12-pane sashes in plain surrounds, each with projecting stone sills. The right extension includes a 20th-century door and various window styles. The main block's roof features gable copings and corniced end chimneys on plinths, while the right extension has a chimney at its right end.
On the rear elevation facing the B6296, the main block has plain stone surrounds for a door with four beaded panels and for the sashes, which also have glazing bars.
Local climate
Prospect 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
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