Lunna, Shetland - Lunna Kirk & House - local postcard

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  Lunna Kirk and Lunna House, Shetland
• Publisher:  John Sowrey, photographer
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s): n/a
• Sent to:  n/a
• Notes / condition: 

Please ask if you need any other information and I will do the best I can to answer.

------------------------------------------------

Postage & Packing:

UK (incl. IOM, CI & BFPO): 99p

Europe: £1.60

Rest of world (inc. USA etc): £2.75

No additional charges for more than one postcard. You can buy as many postcards from me as you like and you will just pay the fee above once. (If buying postcards with other things such as books, please contact or wait for invoice before paying).

Payment Methods:

UK - PayPal, Cheque (from UK bank) or postal order

Outside UK: PayPal ONLY (unless otherwise stated) please.   NO non-UK currency checks or money orders (sorry).

NOTE: All postcards are sent in brand new stiffened envelopes which I have bought for the task. These are specially made to protect postcards and you may be able to re-use them. In addition there are other costs to sending so the above charge is not just for the stamp!

I will give a full refund if you are not fully satisfied with the postcard.

----------------------------------------------

Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

*************

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"".^[1] 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,^[1] and the grounds are included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland, the national listing of significant gardens.^[2]

The earliest part of Lunna House was built in 1660, possibly on the site of a medieval haa (hall), for Robert Hunter (d.1695).^[3] Robert was Chamberlain of the Lordship of Zetland, and a Commissioner of Supply.^[4] An armorial panel on the house commemorates the 1707 marriage of his son Thomas Hunter and Grisella Bruce, around which time this part of the house was added.^[1] In 1753, nearby Lunna Kirk was built by Robert Hunter (1710–1777), 3rd laird.^[3][4]

The formal landscape around the house was laid out during the 18th century, and augmented in the 19th century with Gothic ornaments, such as the beach cobble finials of the gates to the south-west of the house. On the hilltop beyond the gates is a small folly, known as Hunter's Monument, which terminates the axis, and was formerly used as a lookout by the lairds. The harbour was also constructed in the 19th century, along with a walled garden and a lime kiln.^[3]

In 1845 Robina Hunter inherited the property. The following year she married Robert Bell, Sheriff at Lerwick, and a son of the surgeon Joseph Bell.^[4] Their son Robert Bell Hunter, 8th Laird of Lunna, sold the property in 1893 to John Bruce of Sumburgh. Bruce had the house extended in the 20th century.^[3]

During the Second World War, Lunna House became a base for the Shetland Bus, a clandestine operation to transfer men and materials between Shetland and Nazi-occupied Norway. The sheltered harbour at Lunna, away from populated areas, was considered ideal. Lieutenant David Howarth set up his headquarters at Lunna House, which was used as accommodation for the boat crews.

By the end of the war, the house was in poor condition. It was bought in the 1960s, with restoration work beginning soon after.^[3] The house was listed in 1971, and in 1998 the Folly,^[5] West Gates,^[6] Gothick Cottage,^[7] and Walled Garden were also listed at category B, as integral parts of the designed landscape, and with a group value of category A.^[8] The house previously operated as bed and breakfast accommodation until late 2011.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=scotland

transportation type=shetland

county/ country=shetland

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted