Steading, Lunna House, Lunna Ness

This is a mid-19th century steading complex situated at Lunna Ness. The layout is approximately U-shaped, open to the east, and comprises a single-storey and attic range to the north, and single-storey ranges to the west and south. The northern and western ranges abut at the northwest corner, forming a principal L-shaped range. The walls are constructed of harled and harl-pointed rubble.

The northern range is a single-storey and attic six-bay structure (grouped 3-3), incorporating a house to the west and a barn with a hayloft to the east. The south (courtyard) elevation is asymmetrical, with a three-bay house to the left featuring a gabled porch in the centre bay. Regular fenestration is present in the bay to the right, with an attic window breaking the eaves within a gabled dormerhead. The bay to the left of centre is obscured by the gable of the western range. To the right is a three-bay barn and hayloft. A rubble forestair rises to a vertically-boarded timber loft door, breaking the eaves in a catslide dormerhead. A segmental-arched, vertically-boarded timber door is located at ground level adjacent to the stair, accompanied by a two-pane fixed-light timber window to the outer left. Timber louvers are fitted to the square loft windows in the outer bays. The east gable contains a former segmental-arched opening (now with a modern two-leaf door, with the arch head infilled in 1996). The north (rear) elevation is asymmetrical with a blank section at ground level to the left of centre. Timber louvers are present to square loft windows below the eaves in each bay. The house to the right of centre is irregularly fenestrated with a variety of window sizes and types at ground level, featuring a single dormer with a gabled dormerhead breaking the eaves to the left of centre. The western gable is blank. The western range is a single-storey three-bay barn, with its north gable abutting the northern range. The east (courtyard) elevation of the western range features vertically-boarded timber doors to the right of centre and to the outer left, and a small square window to the outer right. The south gable of the western range is blank. The west (rear) elevation of the western range has a rubble-infilled door in the bay to the left and a two-pane timber glazed fixed-light in the bay to the right. The southern range is a gabled barn with a door in its east gable, and eaves built up in modern blockwork.

Some four-pane timber sash and case windows remain to the rear of the house. The south pitch of the house is covered with purple-grey slate, while the north pitch and porch have fish-scale felt tiles. The loft has a felt roof, and corrugated-iron cladding covers the western and southern ranges. A harled two-flue gablehead stack, topped with circular cans, is located on the west gable of the house. Rubble and concrete skew-copes adorn the barns and house respectively. Drystone rubble walls extend west from the south gable of the western range and west from the west gable of the southern range to form an enclosure with a curved western wall. The remains of a large stugged sandstone pier are located opposite the east gable of the northern range, and feature a postbox in its north face.