West Gate Piers And Walls, 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. Gatepiers.
West Gate Piers And Walls, Lunna House, Lunna Ness
- WRENN ID
- former-balcony-storm
- 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
- Gatepiers
- OS grid reference
- HU 485 691
- Coordinates
- 60.40354, -1.12036
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Gate Piers and Walls at Lunna House, Lunna Ness, date from the earlier 19th century. They consist of a symmetrical set of paired gatepiers that flank the gateway to the southwest avenue. The structure features lime-harl-pointed rubble walls and piers, which have droved sandstone ashlar margins. The inner gatepiers are triangular in shape with curved faces to the west, and the margins at the opening show remains of iron hinge-pins, topped with beach-stone finials. The rubble walls, which curve forward to the west, flank the inner piers and connect to the outer piers, which are rhomboid in shape and also have matching beach-stone finials. There are cantilevered steps symmetrically placed on each side of the link walls. Additionally, drystone walls gently curve to the west, leading to the road to the north and the kirkyard to the south.
Local climate
West Gate Piers And Walls, Lunna House, Lunna Ness 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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