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.
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