Hunter's Monument, 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. Folly.

Hunter's Monument, Lunna House, Lunna Ness

WRENN ID
tall-passage-peregrine
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
Folly
OS grid reference
HU 483 689
Coordinates
60.40113, -1.12476
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Hunter's Monument at Lunna House, located in Lunna Ness, is an eyecatcher built in the earlier 19th century. It features harl-pointed rubble and consists of a square-plan tower with a slab roof. The tower has tall round-arched openings on the northeast and southwest faces, while the sides have round-arched openings with high cills. Flanking battlements made of rubble curve slightly forward to the northeast and are topped with merlons at the outer left and right wallheads. These battlements continue as drystone walls that extend downhill, ending at the beaches to the northwest and southeast.

Local climate

Hunter's Monument, 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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