Plane Trees Farmhouse And Outbuildings With Barn

Plane Trees Farmhouse and its outbuildings, including a barn, date from the mid to late 18th century. The buildings are constructed of coursed squared gritstone with a graduated stone slate roof, although some of the outbuildings have been partly replaced by corrugated asbestos.

The farmhouse is two stories high with two bays and was originally two cottages. An additional one-bay cottage has been added to the left. To the right is a three-bay outbuilding with a hay loft, followed by a four-bay barn. The two end bays of the barn feature a projecting outshut and a lean-to addition. Quoins are present on the corners of the buildings.

The main block of the house has paired doors at the center, with the left door blocked. It features long and short quoined jambs and flat-faced mullion windows throughout. There are three-light windows flanking the entrance and three- and four-light windows on the first floor, with a ridge stack on the left. The added bay on the left has a board door in a plain surround and a two-light window on both the ground and first floors, along with gable coping and an end stack.

The outbuilding to the right has central double board doors with a shallow segmental arch and quoined jambs. There are external steps leading to a hay loft door on the left and a byre door on the right, which features a moulded chamfer. The barn, located further right, has an entrance beneath the outshut bay, a byre door in the first bay with a pitching door above, and two slit vents to the right. The lean-to addition in the fourth bay has two reused recessed chamfered windows. The right side of the barn has shaped kneelers and gable coping.

At the rear, the fenestration is random, but a four-light recessed chamfered mullion window illuminates the hay loft opposite the first-floor door. Inside the house, the ground floor on the right features a large fireplace with a late 19th-century range and a deeply moulded wooden cornice that now serves as a mantelshelf. The outbuildings have king-post roof trusses.