Plane Tree House is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1949. House.

Plane Tree House

WRENN ID
floating-gallery-ridge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lancaster
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 May 1949
Type
House
Address
Plane Tree House, North Road, Carnforth
OS grid reference
SD 499 704
Coordinates
54.12719, -2.76699
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Plane Tree House is a house that is said to have a lintel dated 1712. The exterior is pebbledashed and features a modern tile roof. The house has a two-unit plan with a central gabled porch and gable stacks, and it stands two storeys tall. On each side of the porch, there are three-light rebated and chamfered mullioned windows, with a similar window to the right on the first floor. At the far right, there is a one-light rebated and chamfered fire window, with a similar window on the first floor. To the left on the first floor, there is a six-pane sash window with plain reveals. The rear outshut has mullioned windows in the left-hand gable, including one rebated and chamfered window with three lights on the ground floor and one chamfered window with two lights on the first floor. There are later wings at the rear.

Local climate

Plane Tree House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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