Railings and Gate Before the Lawns is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. Gate, railings.
Railings and Gate Before the Lawns
- WRENN ID
- dusk-kitchen-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1973
- Type
- Gate, railings
- Address
- Railings and Gate Before the Lawns, Westbury, Sherborne
- OS grid reference
- ST 637 162
- Coordinates
- 50.94423, -2.51747
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railings and gate before The Lawns, located on the east side of Westbury, date from the 19th century. They are made of cast iron and feature uprights topped with spiked finials. The gates are flanked by square iron standards that also have square coved finials. The gate itself includes rails with spiked finials. This structure is part of a group that includes Stonedyke House, Winton, The Firs, and the gate piers and railings to Winton and The Firs, as well as the railings and gate before The Lawns and the Digby Estate properties numbered 229, 232, and 233.
Local climate
Railings and Gate Before the Lawns receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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