Plane Tree Cottage and Walls Attached is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. House.
Plane Tree Cottage and Walls Attached
- WRENN ID
- gilded-landing-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Plane Tree Cottage and Walls Attached, the Green, Hamsterley
- OS grid reference
- NZ 115 311
- Coordinates
- 54.6753, -1.82245
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Plane Tree Cottage is a house dating from around 1840, located on the north side of The Green in Hamsterley. The building is constructed with thin courses of squared sandstone and features painted ashlar dressings. Its roof is made of graduated stone flags with stone gable coping. The cottage stands two storeys tall and has three bays.
The central entrance consists of a 4-panel door with a margined overlight, all set beneath a flat stone lintel. A wood-bracketed gabled hood with shaped bargeboards covers the door. The outer bays contain late 19th-century sash windows, which have flat stone lintels and thin projecting sills. The eaves feature stone gutter blocks, and the roof is topped with banded end chimneys. On the left side of the building, there is a small window on the ground floor towards the front. At the rear, there is a one-storey outshut.
Attached to the left side of the cottage is a wall that reaches full height on the ground floor, topped with wide stone coping and sloping down to a garden gate located about 5 metres in front of the house. A lower wall continues around the garden.
The cottage and its attached walls are included for their group value.
Local climate
Plane Tree Cottage and Walls Attached receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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