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Latitude: 60.4035 / 60°24'12"N
Longitude: -1.1203 / 1°7'13"W
OS Eastings: 448567
OS Northings: 1169172
OS Grid: HU485691
Mapcode National: GBR R1L7.M8T
Mapcode Global: XHF8S.TRRV
Plus Code: 9CGWCV3H+CV
Entry Name: West Gate Piers And Walls, Lunna House, Lunna Ness
Listing Name: Lunnasting, Lunna, West Gates, Including Walls
Listing Date: 30 March 1998
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 392120
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45280
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Lunna Ness, Lunna House, West Gate Piers And Walls
ID on this website: 200392120
Location: Nesting
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Shetland North
Parish: Nesting
Traditional County: Shetland
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Earlier 19th century. Symmetrical set of paired gatepiers flanking gateway to SW avenue. Lime-harl-pointed rubble walls and piers with droved sandstone ashlar margins. Inner gatepiers of triangular plan with curved faces to W, margins at opening with remains of iron hinge-pins, and beach-stone finials. Rubble walls (curving forward to W) flanking inner piers, and connecting to outer piers of rhomboid plan with matching beach-stone finials; symmetrically-disposed cantilevered steps to each side of link walls. Drystone walls gently curving W to meet with road to N and kirkyard to S.
A Group with Lunna House, Fishing Booth, Folly, Former Schoolhouse, Gothick Cottage, Lunna Harbour, St Margaret's Kirk, Steading, and Walled Garden. Sited on axis with Lunna House and the folly, these gatepiers are of a remarkably sophisticated and intricate design. They are an essential part of Shetland's best historic designed landscape, and mark the foot of the old approach to Lunna House, as well as forming a focus to an ancient religious site adjacent to the W.
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