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Latitude: 59.8728 / 59°52'22"N
Longitude: -1.279 / 1°16'44"W
OS Eastings: 440472
OS Northings: 1109957
OS Grid: HU404099
Mapcode National: GBR R26M.SSF
Mapcode Global: XHD4P.R3FP
Plus Code: 9CFWVPFC+4C
Entry Name: Sumburgh Lighthouse Store, Grutness
Listing Name: Grutness, Lighthouse Store, Including Boundary Wall, Gate, and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 26 March 1997
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 391122
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44543
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200391122
Location: Dunrossness
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Shetland South
Parish: Dunrossness
Traditional County: Shetland
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Circa 1820. Single storey, 3-bay flat roofed symmetrical lighthouse store of rectangular plan. Squared rubble walls with polished and droved ashlar dressings and details. Base course, eaves cornice. Margined openings. Vertically-boarded timber door in centre with vertically-boarded timber shutters to windows in flanking bays. Wallhead stacks centring side elevations; square bases swept up to octagonal shafts with corniced copes.
BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: rectangular plan random rubble enclosing wall, droved ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps centred to W; distance to lighthouse inscribed on cap of N pier; wrought-iron gate. Additional stugged stone gatepiers with pyramidal caps to S.
Built as the waterfront depot for Sumburgh Lighthouse, this is a rare building type, well constructed in the high quality materials commonly associated with lighthouse architecture. The design of the chimneys matches those on the pavilions at the lighthouse.
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