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
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 March 1997
Type
Lighthouse store
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Circa 1820. Single storey, 3-bay flat roofed symmetrical lighthouse store of rectangular plan. Squared rubble walls with polished and droved ashlar dressings and details. Base course, eaves cornice. Margined openings. Vertically-boarded timber door in centre with vertically-boarded timber shutters to windows in flanking bays. Wallhead stacks centring side elevations; square bases swept up to octagonal shafts with corniced copes.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: rectangular plan random rubble enclosing wall, droved ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps centred to W; distance to lighthouse inscribed on cap of N pier; wrought-iron gate. Additional stugged stone gatepiers with pyramidal caps to S.

Detailed Attributes

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