Gothick Cottage, Lunna House, Lunna Ness is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1998. Cottage.

Gothick Cottage, Lunna House, Lunna Ness

WRENN ID
unlit-obsidian-juniper
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 1998
Type
Cottage
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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.

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