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Gothick Cottage, Lunna House, Lunna Ness

A Category B Listed Building in Shetland North, Shetland Islands

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Coordinates

Latitude: 60.4022 / 60°24'7"N

Longitude: -1.1225 / 1°7'20"W

OS Eastings: 448451

OS Northings: 1169019

OS Grid: HU484690

Mapcode National: GBR R1L7.L9G

Mapcode Global: XHF8S.SSWX

Plus Code: 9CGWCV2H+V2

Entry Name: Gothick Cottage, Lunna House, Lunna Ness

Listing Name: Lunnasting, Lunna, Gothick Cottage

Listing Date: 30 March 1998

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 392114

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45276

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Lunna Ness, Lunna House, Gothick Cottage

ID on this website: 200392114

Location: Nesting

County: Shetland Islands

Electoral Ward: Shetland North

Parish: Nesting

Traditional County: Shetland

Tagged with: Cottage

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Description

Earlier 19th century. Cottage comprising single storey and attic 1 x 2-bay principal block with symmetrical Gothick show-front to NW gable, and single storey 2-bay wing adjoining SW gable. Harl-pointed rubble and drystone walls.

NE (PRINCIPAL) GABLE: symmetrical, base course, blind window centred at ground, pointed-arched blind window centred above and rising into gablehead; buttress-like walls flanking gable with blind windows matching centre at ground, and terminated by square piers with bracketted copes (matching skewputts) to outer left and right.

SE ELEVATION: single window to principal block offset to left of centre; wing recessed at left with door in bay to right and window in bay to left.

SW GABLE: blank, with small rubble buttress at corner to right.

NW ELEVATION: door in bay to left, and small infilled window in bay to right, of principal block; rubble-infilled door centring wing elevation recessed to right.

Stone slabs with inscribed glazing bars to blind windows in NE gable.

Low 2-flue gablehead stacks to SW gables; rubble skew-copes with bracketted ashlar skewputts to NE gable.

INTERIOR: fireplaces to each floor in SW gable of principal block; timber surround surviving at attic. Fireplaces with raised hearths in E and W corners of wing.

Statement of Interest

A Group with Lunna House, Fishing Booth, Folly, Former Schoolhouse, Lunna Harbour, St Margaret's Kirk, Steading, Walled Garden, and West Gates. The small rooms suggest this building simply functioned as a cottage but was sited on axis with Lunna House and the folly so that its NW gable would perhaps give the appearance of a small chapel. Forming a focus beyond the west gates and an ancient religious site, this building is an essential part of Shetland's best historic designed landscape.

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