Plane Head

PLANE HEAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1067760
Date first listed:
28-Mar-1984
List Entry Name:
Plane Head
Statutory Address:
PLANE HEAD

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1067760
Date first listed:
28-Mar-1984
List Entry Name:
Plane Head
Statutory Address 1:
PLANE HEAD

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PLANE HEAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Farlam
National Grid Reference:
NY 57797 59740

Details

NY 55 NE FARLAM HALLBANKGATE

6/32 Plane Head

II

House formerly colliery office 1836-8. Calciferous sandstone with rusticated quoins, stone chimney stack, hipped Welsh slate roof. Single storey, 2 bays, with extension bay in similar stonework to right. C20 entrance porch has plank door. Small wooden casement with glazing bars to left has rusticated surround; larger triple casement with glazing bars to right and similar window in extension. Takes its name from the nearby waggonway with inclined plane; office for the coal staith, formerly on this site.

Listing NGR: NY5779759740

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
78023
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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