Sundown and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the West Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 December 1964. House, railings.

Sundown and Railings

WRENN ID
outer-kitchen-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Lindsey
Constituency
Gainsborough MP: Sir Edward Leigh (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 December 1964
Type
House, railings
Address
Sundown and Railings, 48, Front Street, Morton
OS grid reference
SK 807 915
Coordinates
53.41436, -0.78722
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sundown and its railings are a house and railings dating from the late 18th century, with some minor alterations from the early and late 19th century. The building is constructed of stucco and features a slate roof with raised stone coped gables and two yellow brick gable stacks. It has a three-storey, three-bay front, with the two outer bays projecting through all three storeys. The central entrance consists of a half-glazed panelled door that has a traceried overlight and a fluted surround with a dentillated pediment supported by brackets. This door is flanked by single glazing bar segmental bow windows, which project slightly and have narrow leaded cornices.

On the first floor, there is a central glazing bar sash window flanked by single splayed glazing bar sash bay windows. The second floor repeats this pattern with smaller windows. To the right of the main house is a single bay, two-storey addition from the 19th century, which includes a wide garage door and a tripartite window above it. There is also a semi-circular headed planked door leading to a rear passage. The railings feature two tiers of plain square spikes, with top and mid rails that have turned knops at the ends and central pillars.

Local climate

Sundown and Railings sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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