The village of Lunnarp consists of two parts, one on each side of national road 11, the old farming village with a number of well-preserved farmhouses and a schoolhouse, and what we can call the station community, which grew up when the railway Simrishamn– Tomelilla opened.
Lunnarp is today one of the stations served by the train between Simrishamn and Ystad stop by and offer in principle daytime one-hour services in both directions. Lunnarp also has bus connections. The Skåne Express between Simrishamn and Lund passes Lunnarp.
The landscape around Lunnarp is slightly hilly, fertile, although the soil has elements of sand in several places. There are a few permanent ancient monuments outside the village. A horse skull with a broken arrowhead has been found in Ullstorpsån. It may seem insignificant, but it has always been thought that the Stone Age and horses did not belong together?
As Lunnarp is in a fairly treeless area, half-timbered houses were common. In 1699 there were 16 farms in the village, but after the parcels were divided, only four farms remain today. Quite a few of the emigrated farms were built some distance from the road, and avenues were planted along the driveway, a sign of prosperity. There are examples of both double and single-sided avenues.
The railway made the second part of the village grow. Strangely enough, this part was also called Lunnarp, even though the houses built were within the neighbouring village North Kverrestads borders.
The station community still has the station building with its avenue. Nearby are the once lavish two-storey houses. Otherwise, Lunnarp consists of detached single-family houses and semi-detached houses in a grid on both sides of the main road towards Kverrestad. More than a third of Lunnarp's 150 or so houses are clad in brick and were built in the 1960s and 1970s. Many of the houses from the turn of the century to the 1950s are plastered. It is striking that many of the outbuildings remain even though their use has changed.
Completely dominant to the eye and in many other ways, as an advertising pillar, workplace, etc. is Skånemejerier's plant at the eastern entrance. Since Lunnarp has no church and has its parish church in Kverrestad there is not the kind of gathering place that is so often created at the church. In Lunnarp, we can probably say that the meeting place is at the sports ground south of the railway. Here, both boys and girls play football in Lunnarp BK's blue and red uniforms.
The old part of the village is dominated by Svenska Fodder's large factory and shop. There is a petrol station, electricity and construction companies in the village. The nearest larger town with schools and services is Smedstorp in the east and Tomelilla to the west. Both are about half a mile to the east and west respectively.
