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Lunna House
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Lunna House — laird's house dating from 1660, on Lunna Ness, Shetland, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Family-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Lunna House is a historic house in the United Kingdom — typically a country seat, manor, or town house with notable architecture or history. Records date its origin to 1660. Heritage designation: category B listed building. Wikidata describes it as: "laird's house dating from 1660, on Lunna Ness, Shetland, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK". Coordinates: 60.4043°, -1.1185°.
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From the Wikipedia article
Lunna House is a 17th-century laird's house on Lunna Ness in the Shetland Islands. Lunna House is noted for having "the best historic designed landscape in Shetland". In the 20th century it was used as a base of the wartime Shetland Bus operation. The house is protected as a category B listed building, and the grounds are included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland, the national listing of significant gardens.
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Background
History
Lunna House dates from before 1663 and was built on the site of a medieval haa (hall), which itself was built on the site of a Viking longhouse. The east side of the house (on the right in the picture) was built in the 1660s for Robert Hunter (d.1695). The house was extended in 1710, 1750, 1810, 1850 and finally between 1897 and 1910, when the south, north and west-sections of this cross-shaped house were built. The house is mainly constructed from stone and lime mortar, except for the newest section (1897-1910) which was made out of early cast concrete. The house was "harled" (covered in early concrete and pebble cladding ) around 1910 to hide the join between the concrete and thick stone…
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- Coordinates
- 60.4043, -1.1185
- District
- Shetland Islands
- Postcode
- ZE2 9QF
- Parliamentary constituency
- Orkney and Shetland
- Established
- 1660
- Official site
- www.lunnahouse.co.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q6704418 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Lunna House (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Lunna House - Fra vest.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Lunna House?
- Lunna House is in the Scottish Islands, United Kingdom (postcode ZE2 9QF).
- What is Lunna House?
- Lunna House — laird's house dating from 1660, on Lunna Ness, Shetland, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK.
- How do I get to Lunna House?
- Drivers can use postcode ZE2 9QF.
- When was Lunna House built?
- Built or established in 1660.
- Is Lunna House a listed building?
- Lunna House is officially recognised as category B listed building listed.
- How do I get to Lunna House?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode ZE2 9QF. It sits within the Orkney and Shetland parliamentary constituency.