Plane Head is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1984. House.
Plane Head
- WRENN ID
- white-joist-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Plane Head, Farlam
- OS grid reference
- NY 577 597
- Coordinates
- 54.93055, -2.66013
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Plane Head is a house that was formerly a colliery office, built between 1836 and 1838. It is constructed from calciferous sandstone and features rusticated quoins, a stone chimney stack, and a hipped Welsh slate roof. The building is single storey and has two bays, with an additional extension bay on the right that is made from similar stonework. A 20th-century entrance porch includes a plank door. To the left, there is a small wooden casement window with glazing bars and a rusticated surround, while to the right, a larger triple casement window with glazing bars is present, along with a similar window in the extension. The name "Plane Head" comes from the nearby waggonway that had an inclined plane, and this building served as an office for the coal staith, which was formerly located on this site.
Local climate
Plane Head sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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