Last updated: August 2026
We house working crews in Seaham in whole residential property — not hotel rooms, not a shared house with other tenants, not site cabins.
If you are pricing contractor accommodation in Seaham for the Garden Village build, port maintenance at Seaham Harbour, the Dalton Park works or a shift at Jade Business Park, this page gives you the per-person numbers and the honest position on what we can actually book.
Seaham has an advantage that matters at 6am: the work is genuinely on the doorstep.
The Port is five minutes away, the Garden Village site five, Dalton Park and Jade Business Park eight — we routed every one of those from the actual property postcode rather than estimating from a map.
We manage four houses in Seaham. Three of them are on long lets with no availability until at least May 2027, so this page is built around the one we can genuinely sell you, plus what we source to brief across East Durham.
Whatever you call it — contractor stays, workers accommodation, business or professional accommodation, contractor digs or self catering for contractors — it is the same purchase: a furnished property, priced by the night, with the bills in the rate.
Search for contractor accommodation Seaham or contractors accommodation Seaham and you land in the same place. Send us the site postcode, the headcount and the start date.
What is contractor accommodation in Seaham?
Contractor accommodation in Seaham is whole residential property — a furnished house let by the night to a working crew rather than by the room to tourists. Our SR7 7BS house works out from £28 per person per night all in with three people in three separate beds, bills included, typically 30 to 45 percent less per person than three hotel rooms for the same crew. Source basis: live booking rates read from the Stayful booking system, August 2026.
Straight answer: one bookable house. It is 53 Derwent Close in SR7 7BS, a two-bedroom semi-detached with a double in one room and two singles in the other — three people in three separate beds, four at a push. It quotes from £70 a night for the whole house and works out at £28 per person per night all in on a two-week booking. We sampled sixteen consecutive weeks and it is free in all sixteen. Our other three Seaham houses — Stanley Street, Princess Road and Seaham Street — are on long lets and returned no availability on any date we tested through to May 2027, so they appear nowhere in the rate table, the property count, the schema or the carousel below. Above four people in Seaham we source to your brief and say plainly which town each property is in.
From £28 per person per night, bills included, three people in three separate beds. Larger crews sourced across East Durham at £26–34 per person. No minimum-stay floor. £200 refundable deposit. One invoice with your PO on it. We come back the same working day. Send the dates even if the job is not signed off and we will hold a quote for the tender. If you need a single room for one night, a hotel will suit you better — our one-night all-in rate is poor value and we say so below.
Call 0113 479 0251How much does contractor accommodation cost per person per night in Seaham?
From £28 per person per night on our SR7 7BS house on a two-week booking, bills included, three people in three separate beds. A single week on the same house runs £29 to £37 per person. Two people with a bedroom each is £42 to £55. Crews sourced across East Durham run £26 to £34. Source basis: live booking rates read from the Stayful booking system, August 2026.
| Property type | Sleeps (separate beds) | From, all-in | Minimum stay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole house (2 bed), SR7 7BS — our own, bookable now | 3 | £28 pppnTwo-week booking · £70 a night whole house | From 1 night |
| Same house, single week | 3 | £29–37 pppnMoves with the date, not with the headcount | From 1 night |
| Same house, a bedroom each rather than a bed each | 2 | £42–55 pppnWhole property rate is identical — fewer people to divide by | From 1 night |
| Larger crew sourced to your site | 4–20 | £26–34 pppnSeaham, Murton, Peterlee, Easington, Sunderland | From 7 nights |
Rates as of August 2026, read from the live booking system rather than a price list, and they move with the date.
The cheapest week we can currently sell on the Derwent Close house is £85.57 a night all in. The dearest across the next four months is £109.00, in the week of 23 November.
That is the same house and the same three beds — Seaham demand simply moves.
Two things about this pricing are worth knowing before you budget, because they are unusual and one of them works strongly in your favour.
The rate does not move with the headcount. We quoted the same house at two guests and at four and the price was identical both times — £599 for the week, extra guest fee £0.00. Three hotel rooms cost three times one hotel room. One house costs the same whether you put two in it or four.
The nightly rate falls with length, but not for the reason you would expect. The rent is close to flat — around £70 to £83 a night whether you book one night or twenty-eight. What falls is the all-in figure, because the one-off £88 cleaning fee spreads across more nights. Three nights works out at £99.67 a night all in. Fourteen nights works out at £82.07. We would rather explain the mechanism than let you assume a long-stay discount that is not actually in the rent.
That is also why a one-night booking is poor value here at £158 all in, and why we tell you so instead of taking the booking.
Most accommodation pages for this stretch of coast quietly sell you Sunderland or Teesside and hope you do not check the district.
Seaham is County Durham. We checked every postcode against the local authority record rather than assuming, and the work below is split into what sits in County Durham and what does not, so you can judge the commute honestly.
Seaham Garden Village is the largest live construction programme on the doorstep — 78 hectares on the A182, 1,500 homes over roughly ten years. Esh Construction is delivering the first 750 affordable homes for Karbon Homes, and Vital Energi is building one of the UK's first large-scale mine water district heat networks beside the Dawdon treatment scheme on a forty-year concession. Esh have reported more than 7,400 weeks of work and 102 North East operatives on the scheme, which is the clearest evidence available that this is a live programme rather than a press release.
The Port of Seaham handles roughly 600,000 to 700,000 tonnes a year across eight berths under the Seaham Harbour Dock Company, part of the Victoria Group. It has a three-lane link road cut straight to the A19 and a 400-metre rail siding on site, which is why port maintenance and quayside crews base here rather than in Sunderland.
Jade Business Park at Murton is a £120 million Enterprise Zone eight minutes away, with around a million square feet planned and phase one already complete — seven units totalling 155,000 square feet, with Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems as the first tenant. Dalton Park next door is running a £3.2 million transport hub and active travel scheme through to spring 2027, which means road widening, resurfacing and new bus infrastructure on site right now.
Outside County Durham but inside a sensible drive: IAMP and the EV36Zero hub at Washington is eighteen minutes, where Nissan, AESC and the Hylton Castle 275kV substation programme continue. That is Sunderland and South Tyneside, not Durham, and we label it that way. NETPark at Sedgefield — not Peterlee, despite how often it is described that way — is twenty-eight minutes, following a £100 million phase three expansion.
If your site is not on this list, send the postcode. We route it properly rather than guessing at the drive time.
The rate on this page is the rate. Here is exactly what sits inside it.
The house does not take pets and does not allow smoking. Both are worth checking before you send a crew rather than after.
A crew that sleeps properly, cooks a proper meal after a ten-hour shift and has somewhere to dry wet kit finishes the programme. That is the argument for a house over three hotel rooms, and it is a project delivery argument rather than a welfare one — accommodation that does not work is an attrition risk and an avoidable cost on your schedule.
Here is the honest position on crew size, because it is the question that decides whether this page is any use to you.
Two or three people. The Derwent Close house does this well. Three separate beds, a full kitchen, a washing machine and a five-minute run to the Port or the Garden Village site. This is the booking we can confirm today.
Four people. Workable — the fourth shares the double. Some crews are fine with that and some are not, and you know your team better than we do. The whole-house rate does not change, so four people is the cheapest per head this house will ever be at around £21 each.
Five to twenty. Not from our own Seaham stock, and we will not pretend otherwise. Three of our four Seaham houses are on long lets until at least May 2027. Above four we source to brief across East Durham — Murton, Peterlee, Easington and Sunderland are all inside about fifteen minutes — and we tell you which town each property is in before you commit, rather than scattering the crew across three postcodes and mentioning it afterwards.
Across the wider business we manage 70 properties in 45+ areas of England, including twelve houses in Darlington, so a crew that cannot be covered in Seaham itself can often be covered nearby on one invoice.
Every figure below was routed from 53 Derwent Close, SR7 7BS, using OSRM against postcodes validated on the Ordnance Survey record. Where a site sits outside County Durham we say so.
| Destination | District | Miles | Drive |
|---|---|---|---|
| Port of Seaham — Seaham Harbour Dock Company | County Durham | 1.4 | 5 min |
| Seaham Garden Village — A182 site | County Durham | 1.9 | 5 min |
| Dawdon mine water energy centre | County Durham | 1.8 | 6 min |
| Dalton Park, Murton — transport hub works | County Durham | 3.4 | 8 min |
| Jade Business Park, Murton | County Durham | 3.4 | 8 min |
| Sunderland Royal Hospital | Sunderland | 6.4 | 13 min |
| Peterlee north-west industrial estate | County Durham | 7.3 | 13 min |
| IAMP / EV36Zero, Washington | Sunderland | 12.7 | 18 min |
| Nissan Sunderland plant | Sunderland | 12.3 | 22 min |
| Durham city centre | County Durham | 14.2 | 23 min |
| University Hospital of North Durham | County Durham | 15.5 | 27 min |
| NETPark, Sedgefield | County Durham | 17.9 | 28 min |
The hospital row is worth a sentence, because the obvious assumption is wrong.
Sunderland Royal is thirteen minutes away and University Hospital of North Durham is twenty-seven, so the nearer hospital is the one outside the county. For a locum or an agency nurse on a rotating shift at Sunderland Royal, this house is a fourteen-minute saving each way against the Durham option, plus a kitchen and a washing machine.
Two things stand out on this map. The heavy work — the Port, the Garden Village, the Dawdon energy centre — sits inside five or six minutes of the front door, which is unusual. And the manufacturing weight at IAMP and Nissan sits eighteen to twenty-two minutes north, in Sunderland rather than Durham.
A base in Seaham reaches the coastal construction and port work comfortably, and reaches the Wearside automotive cluster at a normal commute. It does not reach Teesside — Wilton is forty minutes and Hartlepool thirty-two, and if that is where your job is, our Hartlepool and Redcar pages are the honest answer instead.
The parking row goes to the hotel and we have left it in. A Sunderland hotel car park will hold three vans; our driveway holds one. If secure parking for a liveried fleet is the deciding factor, book the hotel or let us source something else — that is a straight answer rather than a sales one.
Everywhere else the house wins, and the cost line is the one that decides most bookings: three rooms at £75 to £90 each is £225 to £270 a night before anybody eats, against £85.57 for the whole house with a kitchen in it.
Projects move. Every booker reading this has been caught by a non-refundable hotel block at some point.
Cancellation mirrors the policy applied to the same property on Airbnb, so you are not signing up to something harsher for booking direct.
The deposit is £200, fully refundable, taken by card before arrival and returned within seven days of check-out subject to an inspection.
Extensions are the honest weak point in Seaham and we would rather flag it than bury it. There is no minimum-stay floor, so extending is mechanically easy — but the Derwent Close house is the only Seaham property we can book, and if someone else has taken the following week we cannot conjure a second one, because the other three are on long lets. Tell us as early as you can and we will either hold the house or give you enough notice to place the crew in Murton, Peterlee or Sunderland.
That Google rating is the company-level one and it is the figure our schema carries. 4.6 out of 5 from 21 Google reviews.
Separately, across the Airbnb portfolio and roughly 10,000 nights hosted, guests score us 4.9 for communication, 4.8 for value for money, 4.8 for cleanliness and 4.9 for location. Those are Airbnb category scores on our managed properties, labelled as such, and we do not present them as a site-wide star rating because they are not one.
We do not have a verified guest review from a contractor crew in Seaham yet, so there is not one on this page. When we have one it will go here with a first name and a month.
The 4.9 for communication is the number that matters most on a working booking. It exists because things occasionally go wrong at 6am and get sorted quickly — that is what the rating measures, not how nice the sofa is.
Secure parking for two liveried vans. A bedroom each rather than a bed each. A second bathroom for a crew all leaving at six. Six beds from the same Sunday, ten minutes from the Garden Village compound. Night-shift arrivals at 2am off a commissioning rota. A property that takes a dog — ours does not. Tell us the requirement and the budget you have to work to, and we come back the same working day with what we can put together, or put you in front of an operator who covers what we cannot, or tell you honestly that your number will not buy it here. With 70 properties across England, twelve of them in Darlington, and operators across East Durham and Wearside, there is usually more than one way to make a set of dates work. What we will not do is take the booking and scatter your crew across three postcodes without telling you first.
From £28 per person per night all in on our SR7 7BS house — three people in three separate beds, on a two-week booking, bills included. A single week on the same house runs £29 to £37 per person depending on the date. If each person needs their own bedroom rather than their own bed, it is two people at £42 to £55. For crews we source to brief across Seaham and East Durham the range is £26 to £34 per person per night. These figures were read from the live booking system in August 2026, not from a price list, so send the site and headcount for a firm quote.
One bookable house, and we will be straight about the rest. We manage four houses in Seaham, but three of them — on Stanley Street, Princess Road and Seaham Street — are on long lets and show no availability at all between now and May 2027. We checked every one against the booking system rather than assuming. That leaves 53 Derwent Close in SR7 7BS, a two-bedroom semi-detached house, which is free in all sixteen of the next sixteen weeks. The three long lets appear nowhere in our rate table, property count, schema or the carousel on this page.
Four in the one house we can book today, and the honest detail matters here. The master bedroom has one double bed and the second bedroom has two singles — so three people get a bed each, two of them sharing a room, and a fourth would be on the double. That is a crew of two or three comfortably, four at a push. For anything larger than four in Seaham we source to your brief across East Durham, which typically means Murton, Peterlee, Easington or Sunderland within a fifteen-minute drive, and we tell you which town each property is in before you commit.
In the Seaham house, partly — and we would rather say so than let you find out on arrival. It is a two-bedroom property with three beds: a double in one room and two singles in the other. Nobody shares a bed, but two of your three will share the twin room. If your crew needs a bedroom each, this house takes two people. If that is a problem for the job, tell us at enquiry and we will source a property with the bedroom count you need rather than talk you into this one.
There is a driveway with space for one vehicle, plus unrestricted on-street parking outside. That is genuinely it — this is a residential street in Seaham, not a compound, and we are not going to tell you there is secure van parking when there is not. One van fits on the drive. A second vehicle goes on the street. If you are carrying tools worth thousands and need it gated and secure, say so at enquiry and we will look at what else we can source in the area, because this particular house will not give you that.
About five minutes, 1.4 miles, from 53 Derwent Close to the Seaham Harbour Dock Company gate. The port handles roughly 600,000 to 700,000 tonnes a year across eight berths, with a three-lane link road straight onto the A19 and a 400-metre rail siding on site. For crews on port maintenance, quayside work or the Victoria Group transport operation, that is a five-minute run rather than a commute, and it means a 6am start does not begin with half an hour in the van.
Yes, and it is the closest major job to the house — about five minutes, 1.9 miles, to the A182 site. Seaham Garden Village is a 78-hectare scheme of 1,500 homes being built over roughly ten years, with Esh Construction delivering the first 750 affordable homes for Karbon Homes and Vital Energi building the mine water district heat network next to the Dawdon treatment scheme. Esh have reported over 7,400 weeks of work and 102 North East operatives on the scheme, so this is live construction rather than an announcement. We can book the one house directly and source the rest of a crew nearby.
Gas, electricity, water, council tax, wifi, hotel-quality linen and towels, and a fully equipped kitchen — hob, oven, fridge, dishwasher and a washing machine. The cleaning fee is a one-off £88 and it is inside every all-in figure quoted on this page. Not included: food, the £200 refundable damage deposit taken by card before arrival, and anything you break. There is one bathroom, which is fine on a staggered shift and tight if three of you leave at six.
Yes. There is no minimum-stay floor on the Seaham house — we sampled sixteen consecutive weeks and the booking system returned no minimum on any of them, so a Monday-to-Friday pattern is bookable. Be aware of the arithmetic though: the £88 cleaning fee is charged once per booking, so a repeating four-night stay carries it every week. If the job runs several weeks, a continuous booking is materially cheaper per night than five separate Monday-to-Fridays, and we will point that out rather than let you book the expensive version.
Yes. One invoice for the whole booking with your PO number on it, and 30-day terms for approved accounts. If you are running Seaham alongside other sites, it goes on the same invoice rather than arriving as separate bookings for your finance team to reconcile. We do not ask for company cards or expect your site manager to claim it back on receipts.
Tell us as early as you can and we extend the same booking on the same house — same key, same beds, no rebooking from scratch. We cannot guarantee the extension, because three of our four Seaham houses are already on long lets and the fourth is the one you would be in. What we will not do is let you find out on the Friday. If we cannot hold the house, we say so with enough notice to source an alternative in Murton, Peterlee or Sunderland, all inside about fifteen minutes.
Sunderland Royal Hospital is about thirteen minutes and 6.4 miles from the house — noticeably closer than University Hospital of North Durham, which is twenty-six minutes away. We measured both rather than assuming the County Durham hospital would be nearer. For locum doctors, agency nurses and medical equipment crews on placement at Sunderland Royal, a self-catering house with a kitchen, a washing machine and 3pm self check-in works better than a hotel room on a rotating shift.
We answer calls during working hours. For a Friday enquiry needing a crew housed by Monday, ring rather than fill in the form.
Email: info@stayful.co.uk
Stayful — 70 managed properties across 45+ areas of England, 10,000+ nights hosted. Contractor accommodation in Seaham, Dalton-le-Dale, Murton, Peterlee, Easington and across County Durham and the North East. Co-founded by Zac Harrison and Martyn Butler.
We are not a broker sourcing stock from other hosts and adding a margin. We manage all four Seaham houses directly, which means consistent standards, a direct line to the people responsible for the buildings, and no middleman cut in your quote. It is also why we can tell you that three of them are on long lets — a broker would not know. Where we source beyond our own stock, which above four people in Seaham we will, we say so plainly and we vet the operator first. One invoice either way, PO matched, 30-day terms for approved accounts.
From £28 per person per night, bills included, three people in three separate beds in SR7 7BS — free in all sixteen of the next sixteen weeks. Larger crews sourced across East Durham at £26–34 per person. No minimum-stay floor. £200 refundable deposit. One invoice with your PO on it. Send the dates even if the job is not signed off and we will hold a quote for the tender.
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Last updated: August 2026
We house working crews in Seaham in whole residential property — not hotel rooms, not a shared house with other tenants, not site cabins.
If you are pricing contractor accommodation in Seaham for the Garden Village build, port maintenance at Seaham Harbour, the Dalton Park works or a shift at Jade Business Park, this page gives you the per-person numbers and the honest position on what we can actually book.
Seaham has an advantage that matters at 6am: the work is genuinely on the doorstep.
The Port is five minutes away, the Garden Village site five, Dalton Park and Jade Business Park eight — we routed every one of those from the actual property postcode rather than estimating from a map.
We manage four houses in Seaham. Three of them are on long lets with no availability until at least May 2027, so this page is built around the one we can genuinely sell you, plus what we source to brief across East Durham.
Whatever you call it — contractor stays, workers accommodation, business or professional accommodation, contractor digs or self catering for contractors — it is the same purchase: a furnished property, priced by the night, with the bills in the rate.
Search for contractor accommodation Seaham or contractors accommodation Seaham and you land in the same place. Send us the site postcode, the headcount and the start date.
What is contractor accommodation in Seaham?
Contractor accommodation in Seaham is whole residential property — a furnished house let by the night to a working crew rather than by the room to tourists. Our SR7 7BS house works out from £28 per person per night all in with three people in three separate beds, bills included, typically 30 to 45 percent less per person than three hotel rooms for the same crew. Source basis: live booking rates read from the Stayful booking system, August 2026.
What we actually hold in Seaham todayStraight answer: one bookable house. It is 53 Derwent Close in SR7 7BS, a two-bedroom semi-detached with a double in one room and two singles in the other — three people in three separate beds, four at a push. It quotes from £70 a night for the whole house and works out at £28 per person per night all in on a two-week booking. We sampled sixteen consecutive weeks and it is free in all sixteen. Our other three Seaham houses — Stanley Street, Princess Road and Seaham Street — are on long lets and returned no availability on any date we tested through to May 2027, so they appear nowhere in the rate table, the property count, the schema or the carousel below. Above four people in Seaham we source to your brief and say plainly which town each property is in.
Book direct — no sourcing fee, no platform cut Tell us the site and the headcount for SeahamFrom £28 per person per night, bills included, three people in three separate beds. Larger crews sourced across East Durham at £26–34 per person. No minimum-stay floor. £200 refundable deposit. One invoice with your PO on it. We come back the same working day. Send the dates even if the job is not signed off and we will hold a quote for the tender. If you need a single room for one night, a hotel will suit you better — our one-night all-in rate is poor value and we say so below.
Call 0113 479 0251How much does contractor accommodation cost per person per night in Seaham?
From £28 per person per night on our SR7 7BS house on a two-week booking, bills included, three people in three separate beds. A single week on the same house runs £29 to £37 per person. Two people with a bedroom each is £42 to £55. Crews sourced across East Durham run £26 to £34. Source basis: live booking rates read from the Stayful booking system, August 2026.
| Property type | Sleeps (separate beds) | From, all-in | Minimum stay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole house (2 bed), SR7 7BS — our own, bookable now | 3 | £28 pppnTwo-week booking · £70 a night whole house | From 1 night |
| Same house, single week | 3 | £29–37 pppnMoves with the date, not with the headcount | From 1 night |
| Same house, a bedroom each rather than a bed each | 2 | £42–55 pppnWhole property rate is identical — fewer people to divide by | From 1 night |
| Larger crew sourced to your site | 4–20 | £26–34 pppnSeaham, Murton, Peterlee, Easington, Sunderland | From 7 nights |
Rates as of August 2026, read from the live booking system rather than a price list, and they move with the date.
The cheapest week we can currently sell on the Derwent Close house is £85.57 a night all in. The dearest across the next four months is £109.00, in the week of 23 November.
That is the same house and the same three beds — Seaham demand simply moves.
Two things about this pricing are worth knowing before you budget, because they are unusual and one of them works strongly in your favour.
The rate does not move with the headcount. We quoted the same house at two guests and at four and the price was identical both times — £599 for the week, extra guest fee £0.00. Three hotel rooms cost three times one hotel room. One house costs the same whether you put two in it or four.
The nightly rate falls with length, but not for the reason you would expect. The rent is close to flat — around £70 to £83 a night whether you book one night or twenty-eight. What falls is the all-in figure, because the one-off £88 cleaning fee spreads across more nights. Three nights works out at £99.67 a night all in. Fourteen nights works out at £82.07. We would rather explain the mechanism than let you assume a long-stay discount that is not actually in the rent.
That is also why a one-night booking is poor value here at £158 all in, and why we tell you so instead of taking the booking.
Most accommodation pages for this stretch of coast quietly sell you Sunderland or Teesside and hope you do not check the district.
Seaham is County Durham. We checked every postcode against the local authority record rather than assuming, and the work below is split into what sits in County Durham and what does not, so you can judge the commute honestly.
Seaham Garden Village is the largest live construction programme on the doorstep — 78 hectares on the A182, 1,500 homes over roughly ten years. Esh Construction is delivering the first 750 affordable homes for Karbon Homes, and Vital Energi is building one of the UK's first large-scale mine water district heat networks beside the Dawdon treatment scheme on a forty-year concession. Esh have reported more than 7,400 weeks of work and 102 North East operatives on the scheme, which is the clearest evidence available that this is a live programme rather than a press release.
The Port of Seaham handles roughly 600,000 to 700,000 tonnes a year across eight berths under the Seaham Harbour Dock Company, part of the Victoria Group. It has a three-lane link road cut straight to the A19 and a 400-metre rail siding on site, which is why port maintenance and quayside crews base here rather than in Sunderland.
Jade Business Park at Murton is a £120 million Enterprise Zone eight minutes away, with around a million square feet planned and phase one already complete — seven units totalling 155,000 square feet, with Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems as the first tenant. Dalton Park next door is running a £3.2 million transport hub and active travel scheme through to spring 2027, which means road widening, resurfacing and new bus infrastructure on site right now.
Outside County Durham but inside a sensible drive: IAMP and the EV36Zero hub at Washington is eighteen minutes, where Nissan, AESC and the Hylton Castle 275kV substation programme continue. That is Sunderland and South Tyneside, not Durham, and we label it that way. NETPark at Sedgefield — not Peterlee, despite how often it is described that way — is twenty-eight minutes, following a £100 million phase three expansion.
If your site is not on this list, send the postcode. We route it properly rather than guessing at the drive time.
The rate on this page is the rate. Here is exactly what sits inside it.
Included in every night Gas, electricity and water — no meter readings, no bills chasing you afterwards Council tax Wifi throughout the house Hotel-quality linen and towels A fully equipped kitchen — hob, oven, fridge, dishwasher, and enough pans and plates for the crew A washing machine, so a week of workwear does not mean a launderette run Driveway parking for one vehicle, plus unrestricted on-street outside A rear patio, and a residential street rather than a town-centre flat above a bar Self check-in from 3pm with your own key and your own front door The one-off £88 cleaning fee, already inside every all-in figure quoted above Not included, and worth knowing before you book Food The £200 damage deposit — refundable, taken by card before arrival, back within seven days of check-out Secure or gated van parking. There is one driveway space and a public street. That is the honest limit of it. A second bathroom. There is one, which is workable on a staggered shift and tight if three of you leave at six.The house does not take pets and does not allow smoking. Both are worth checking before you send a crew rather than after.
A crew that sleeps properly, cooks a proper meal after a ten-hour shift and has somewhere to dry wet kit finishes the programme. That is the argument for a house over three hotel rooms, and it is a project delivery argument rather than a welfare one — accommodation that does not work is an attrition risk and an avoidable cost on your schedule.
Here is the honest position on crew size, because it is the question that decides whether this page is any use to you.
Two or three people. The Derwent Close house does this well. Three separate beds, a full kitchen, a washing machine and a five-minute run to the Port or the Garden Village site. This is the booking we can confirm today.
Four people. Workable — the fourth shares the double. Some crews are fine with that and some are not, and you know your team better than we do. The whole-house rate does not change, so four people is the cheapest per head this house will ever be at around £21 each.
Five to twenty. Not from our own Seaham stock, and we will not pretend otherwise. Three of our four Seaham houses are on long lets until at least May 2027. Above four we source to brief across East Durham — Murton, Peterlee, Easington and Sunderland are all inside about fifteen minutes — and we tell you which town each property is in before you commit, rather than scattering the crew across three postcodes and mentioning it afterwards.
Across the wider business we manage 70 properties in 45+ areas of England, including twelve houses in Darlington, so a crew that cannot be covered in Seaham itself can often be covered nearby on one invoice.
Every figure below was routed from 53 Derwent Close, SR7 7BS, using OSRM against postcodes validated on the Ordnance Survey record. Where a site sits outside County Durham we say so.
| Destination | District | Miles | Drive |
|---|---|---|---|
| Port of Seaham — Seaham Harbour Dock Company | County Durham | 1.4 | 5 min |
| Seaham Garden Village — A182 site | County Durham | 1.9 | 5 min |
| Dawdon mine water energy centre | County Durham | 1.8 | 6 min |
| Dalton Park, Murton — transport hub works | County Durham | 3.4 | 8 min |
| Jade Business Park, Murton | County Durham | 3.4 | 8 min |
| Sunderland Royal Hospital | Sunderland | 6.4 | 13 min |
| Peterlee north-west industrial estate | County Durham | 7.3 | 13 min |
| IAMP / EV36Zero, Washington | Sunderland | 12.7 | 18 min |
| Nissan Sunderland plant | Sunderland | 12.3 | 22 min |
| Durham city centre | County Durham | 14.2 | 23 min |
| University Hospital of North Durham | County Durham | 15.5 | 27 min |
| NETPark, Sedgefield | County Durham | 17.9 | 28 min |
The hospital row is worth a sentence, because the obvious assumption is wrong.
Sunderland Royal is thirteen minutes away and University Hospital of North Durham is twenty-seven, so the nearer hospital is the one outside the county. For a locum or an agency nurse on a rotating shift at Sunderland Royal, this house is a fourteen-minute saving each way against the Durham option, plus a kitchen and a washing machine.
Two things stand out on this map. The heavy work — the Port, the Garden Village, the Dawdon energy centre — sits inside five or six minutes of the front door, which is unusual. And the manufacturing weight at IAMP and Nissan sits eighteen to twenty-two minutes north, in Sunderland rather than Durham.
A base in Seaham reaches the coastal construction and port work comfortably, and reaches the Wearside automotive cluster at a normal commute. It does not reach Teesside — Wilton is forty minutes and Hartlepool thirty-two, and if that is where your job is, our Hartlepool and Redcar pages are the honest answer instead.
The parking row goes to the hotel and we have left it in. A Sunderland hotel car park will hold three vans; our driveway holds one. If secure parking for a liveried fleet is the deciding factor, book the hotel or let us source something else — that is a straight answer rather than a sales one.
Everywhere else the house wins, and the cost line is the one that decides most bookings: three rooms at £75 to £90 each is £225 to £270 a night before anybody eats, against £85.57 for the whole house with a kitchen in it.
Projects move. Every booker reading this has been caught by a non-refundable hotel block at some point.
Cancellation mirrors the policy applied to the same property on Airbnb, so you are not signing up to something harsher for booking direct.
The deposit is £200, fully refundable, taken by card before arrival and returned within seven days of check-out subject to an inspection.
Extensions are the honest weak point in Seaham and we would rather flag it than bury it. There is no minimum-stay floor, so extending is mechanically easy — but the Derwent Close house is the only Seaham property we can book, and if someone else has taken the following week we cannot conjure a second one, because the other three are on long lets. Tell us as early as you can and we will either hold the house or give you enough notice to place the crew in Murton, Peterlee or Sunderland.
That Google rating is the company-level one and it is the figure our schema carries. 4.6 out of 5 from 21 Google reviews.
Separately, across the Airbnb portfolio and roughly 10,000 nights hosted, guests score us 4.9 for communication, 4.8 for value for money, 4.8 for cleanliness and 4.9 for location. Those are Airbnb category scores on our managed properties, labelled as such, and we do not present them as a site-wide star rating because they are not one.
4.9CommunicationAirbnb category score 4.8Value for moneyAirbnb category score 4.8CleanlinessAirbnb category score 10,000+Nights hostedAcross 70 propertiesWe do not have a verified guest review from a contractor crew in Seaham yet, so there is not one on this page. When we have one it will go here with a first name and a month.
The 4.9 for communication is the number that matters most on a working booking. It exists because things occasionally go wrong at 6am and get sorted quickly — that is what the rating measures, not how nice the sofa is.
Got specific requirements?Secure parking for two liveried vans. A bedroom each rather than a bed each. A second bathroom for a crew all leaving at six. Six beds from the same Sunday, ten minutes from the Garden Village compound. Night-shift arrivals at 2am off a commissioning rota. A property that takes a dog — ours does not. Tell us the requirement and the budget you have to work to, and we come back the same working day with what we can put together, or put you in front of an operator who covers what we cannot, or tell you honestly that your number will not buy it here. With 70 properties across England, twelve of them in Darlington, and operators across East Durham and Wearside, there is usually more than one way to make a set of dates work. What we will not do is take the booking and scatter your crew across three postcodes without telling you first.
From £28 per person per night all in on our SR7 7BS house — three people in three separate beds, on a two-week booking, bills included. A single week on the same house runs £29 to £37 per person depending on the date. If each person needs their own bedroom rather than their own bed, it is two people at £42 to £55. For crews we source to brief across Seaham and East Durham the range is £26 to £34 per person per night. These figures were read from the live booking system in August 2026, not from a price list, so send the site and headcount for a firm quote.
One bookable house, and we will be straight about the rest. We manage four houses in Seaham, but three of them — on Stanley Street, Princess Road and Seaham Street — are on long lets and show no availability at all between now and May 2027. We checked every one against the booking system rather than assuming. That leaves 53 Derwent Close in SR7 7BS, a two-bedroom semi-detached house, which is free in all sixteen of the next sixteen weeks. The three long lets appear nowhere in our rate table, property count, schema or the carousel on this page.
Four in the one house we can book today, and the honest detail matters here. The master bedroom has one double bed and the second bedroom has two singles — so three people get a bed each, two of them sharing a room, and a fourth would be on the double. That is a crew of two or three comfortably, four at a push. For anything larger than four in Seaham we source to your brief across East Durham, which typically means Murton, Peterlee, Easington or Sunderland within a fifteen-minute drive, and we tell you which town each property is in before you commit.
In the Seaham house, partly — and we would rather say so than let you find out on arrival. It is a two-bedroom property with three beds: a double in one room and two singles in the other. Nobody shares a bed, but two of your three will share the twin room. If your crew needs a bedroom each, this house takes two people. If that is a problem for the job, tell us at enquiry and we will source a property with the bedroom count you need rather than talk you into this one.
There is a driveway with space for one vehicle, plus unrestricted on-street parking outside. That is genuinely it — this is a residential street in Seaham, not a compound, and we are not going to tell you there is secure van parking when there is not. One van fits on the drive. A second vehicle goes on the street. If you are carrying tools worth thousands and need it gated and secure, say so at enquiry and we will look at what else we can source in the area, because this particular house will not give you that.
About five minutes, 1.4 miles, from 53 Derwent Close to the Seaham Harbour Dock Company gate. The port handles roughly 600,000 to 700,000 tonnes a year across eight berths, with a three-lane link road straight onto the A19 and a 400-metre rail siding on site. For crews on port maintenance, quayside work or the Victoria Group transport operation, that is a five-minute run rather than a commute, and it means a 6am start does not begin with half an hour in the van.
Yes, and it is the closest major job to the house — about five minutes, 1.9 miles, to the A182 site. Seaham Garden Village is a 78-hectare scheme of 1,500 homes being built over roughly ten years, with Esh Construction delivering the first 750 affordable homes for Karbon Homes and Vital Energi building the mine water district heat network next to the Dawdon treatment scheme. Esh have reported over 7,400 weeks of work and 102 North East operatives on the scheme, so this is live construction rather than an announcement. We can book the one house directly and source the rest of a crew nearby.
Gas, electricity, water, council tax, wifi, hotel-quality linen and towels, and a fully equipped kitchen — hob, oven, fridge, dishwasher and a washing machine. The cleaning fee is a one-off £88 and it is inside every all-in figure quoted on this page. Not included: food, the £200 refundable damage deposit taken by card before arrival, and anything you break. There is one bathroom, which is fine on a staggered shift and tight if three of you leave at six.
Yes. There is no minimum-stay floor on the Seaham house — we sampled sixteen consecutive weeks and the booking system returned no minimum on any of them, so a Monday-to-Friday pattern is bookable. Be aware of the arithmetic though: the £88 cleaning fee is charged once per booking, so a repeating four-night stay carries it every week. If the job runs several weeks, a continuous booking is materially cheaper per night than five separate Monday-to-Fridays, and we will point that out rather than let you book the expensive version.
Yes. One invoice for the whole booking with your PO number on it, and 30-day terms for approved accounts. If you are running Seaham alongside other sites, it goes on the same invoice rather than arriving as separate bookings for your finance team to reconcile. We do not ask for company cards or expect your site manager to claim it back on receipts.
Tell us as early as you can and we extend the same booking on the same house — same key, same beds, no rebooking from scratch. We cannot guarantee the extension, because three of our four Seaham houses are already on long lets and the fourth is the one you would be in. What we will not do is let you find out on the Friday. If we cannot hold the house, we say so with enough notice to source an alternative in Murton, Peterlee or Sunderland, all inside about fifteen minutes.
Sunderland Royal Hospital is about thirteen minutes and 6.4 miles from the house — noticeably closer than University Hospital of North Durham, which is twenty-six minutes away. We measured both rather than assuming the County Durham hospital would be nearer. For locum doctors, agency nurses and medical equipment crews on placement at Sunderland Royal, a self-catering house with a kitchen, a washing machine and 3pm self check-in works better than a hotel room on a rotating shift.
We answer calls during working hours. For a Friday enquiry needing a crew housed by Monday, ring rather than fill in the form.
Email: info@stayful.co.uk
Stayful — 70 managed properties across 45+ areas of England, 10,000+ nights hosted. Contractor accommodation in Seaham, Dalton-le-Dale, Murton, Peterlee, Easington and across County Durham and the North East. Co-founded by Zac Harrison and Martyn Butler.
We manage these properties ourselvesWe are not a broker sourcing stock from other hosts and adding a margin. We manage all four Seaham houses directly, which means consistent standards, a direct line to the people responsible for the buildings, and no middleman cut in your quote. It is also why we can tell you that three of them are on long lets — a broker would not know. Where we source beyond our own stock, which above four people in Seaham we will, we say so plainly and we vet the operator first. One invoice either way, PO matched, 30-day terms for approved accounts.
Send us the site and the headcount We come back the same working dayFrom £28 per person per night, bills included, three people in three separate beds in SR7 7BS — free in all sixteen of the next sixteen weeks. Larger crews sourced across East Durham at £26–34 per person. No minimum-stay floor. £200 refundable deposit. One invoice with your PO on it. Send the dates even if the job is not signed off and we will hold a quote for the tender.
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