Cellar Hill House

Cellar Hill House is an early 18th-century house with later 18th and early 19th-century alterations, situated on Houghton Road in Houghton-le-Spring. The house is constructed of thickly rendered, right return coursed limestone rubble, with a pantiled roof. It is two storeys high and has five sash windows with glazing bars, each set under a flat brick arch and with projecting stone cills. A round-headed window with intersecting glazing bars is centrally placed on the first floor. The central entrance features a six-panelled door within an architrave, topped by a bracketed pediment. The roof is double span and hipped to the left, with one transverse ridge chimney at the left and two end chimneys at the right, all built of yellow brick with red brick bands and a dog-tooth cornice. Moulded kneelers are present at the gables.

Internally, the house retains window shutters and eight-panelled doors with architraves. An elliptical-headed arch in the hall is supported by fluted Tuscan pilasters, has a keyed architrave, a deep panelled reveal, and a soffit. The staircase features a cut string, two 19th-century square balusters per tread, a ramped, almost flat handrail, and square newels. An upper rear staircase has been removed. A single two-panelled door with its original hinges remains on the first floor.