Number 16 Front Street and Railings and Gate is a Grade II listed building in the West Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.

Number 16 Front Street and Railings and Gate

WRENN ID
vacant-thatch-twilight
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Lindsey
Constituency
Gainsborough MP: Sir Edward Leigh (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 May 1985
Type
House
Address
Number 16 Front Street and Railings and Gate, Morton, DN21 3AA
OS grid reference
SK 809 915
Coordinates
53.41424, -0.78319
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 16 Front Street is a house with railings and a gate, dating from the 18th century, with some early 19th-century alterations. The building is finished in stucco, featuring ashlar and stucco dressings, and has a slate hipped roof with lead dressings, along with one ridge and two wall brick stacks. The front has four bays and two storeys, with a plinth, a moulded first-floor string course, and rusticated quoins.

The entrance is off-centre and features a partially glazed six-panelled door with a plain fanlight, set within a stone doorcase that includes two Tuscan columns with square bases, supporting a frieze with paterae and a hood. To the left of the door are two glazing bar sashes, while to the right is a single early 19th-century tripartite plain sash. The first floor has four glazing bar sashes.

Inside, the early 19th-century staircase has pairs of delicately turned balusters. A semi-circular archway leads to the inner rooms, with the arch and architraves featuring reeded surrounds and decorative angles. The cornice displays a Greek Key and egg-and-dart design, and the rear room is adorned with a highly ornate rose cornice in a lattice work pattern. There is also one 19th-century marble fireplace.

The external cast iron railings are set on an ashlar plinth and consist of two tiers of plain rods, with mid and top rails.

Local climate

Number 16 Front Street and Railings and Gate 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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