Plum Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Plum Tree Farmhouse

WRENN ID
heavy-facade-twilight
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newark and Sherwood
Constituency
Newark MP: Robert Jenrick (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 October 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Plum Tree Farmhouse, Low Road, Besthorpe, NG23 7HJ
OS grid reference
SK 825 649
Coordinates
53.17548, -0.76621
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Plum Tree Farmhouse is a farmhouse built around 1800. It is constructed of brick and has an interlocking tile roof, with double brick bands at the floor levels. The building has three storeys and features four windows. The entrance is an off-centre six-panelled door, which is flanked by a blank panel to the west and two plain sash windows with segmental heads to the east. Above the door, there is a blank panel to the west and three plain sash windows. On the top floor, there are four two-light casement windows, all with segmental heads. To the east, there is a two-storey service wing that has two bays, is also made of brick, and has a pantile roof with a single stack on the rear elevation.

Local climate

Plum Tree Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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