Schoolhouse, Lunna, Lunnasting is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1998. Schoolhouse.
Schoolhouse, Lunna, Lunnasting
- WRENN ID
- ragged-pewter-elm
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1998
- Type
- Schoolhouse
- OS grid reference
- HU 487 694
- Coordinates
- 60.40593, -1.11746
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The former schoolhouse in Lunna, Lunnasting, dates from around 1820. It is a near-symmetrical single-storey building with an attic, featuring a three-bay principal block and a single-storey, two-bay wing attached to the southwest gable. The walls are made of harl-pointed rubble.
On the southeast, or principal elevation, the building is nearly symmetrical with the entrance door slightly offset to the left. There are 12-pane timber sash and case windows in the flanking bays. The two-bay wing to the left has a blind window to the left of centre and a modern door inserted to the right.
The northwest, or rear elevation, is symmetrical with a blind window in the centre and 4-pane timber glazing in the flanking bays. There is a modern lean-to addition to the wing on the right.
The principal block has a stone slab roof with cast-iron rooflights on the southeast pitch, while the wing has modern corrugated sheeting. The gablehead stacks are made of rubble and are coped, flanked by crowstepped skews and beak skewputts on both the principal block and the wing.
Local climate
Schoolhouse, Lunna, Lunnasting sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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