Sumburgh Lighthouse Store, Grutness is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997. Lighthouse store. 2 related planning applications.
Sumburgh Lighthouse Store, Grutness
- WRENN ID
- gilded-balcony-bittern
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1997
- Type
- Lighthouse store
- Address
- Sumburgh Lighthouse Store, Grutness, ZE3 9JN
- OS grid reference
- HU 404 099
- Coordinates
- 59.87279, -1.27898
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Sumburgh Lighthouse Store, built around 1820, is a single-storey, three-bay structure with a flat roof and a rectangular shape. The walls are made of squared rubble, featuring polished and droved ashlar dressings and details. It has a base course and an eaves cornice, with openings that have margins. The central entrance consists of a vertically-boarded timber door, flanked by windows with vertically-boarded timber shutters. The side elevations have wallhead stacks, which have square bases that rise to octagonal shafts topped with corniced copes.
Surrounding the store is a boundary wall made of random rubble, with droved ashlar gatepiers that have pyramidal caps located at the west. The north pier has the distance to the lighthouse inscribed on its cap, and there is a wrought-iron gate. Additional stugged stone gatepiers with pyramidal caps are situated to the south.
Local climate
Sumburgh Lighthouse Store, Grutness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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