Birnbeck Pier
BIRNBECK PIER, BIRNBECK PIER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1129718
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Birnbeck Pier
- Statutory Address:
- BIRNBECK PIER, BIRNBECK PIER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1129718
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Birnbeck Pier
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIRNBECK PIER, BIRNBECK PIER
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BIRNBECK PIER, BIRNBECK PIER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Weston-Super-Mare
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 30703 62481
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/03/2017
ST 3062 SE 5/5
BIRNBECK PIER
Birnbeck Pier
GV
II*
Main pier connects Birnbeck Island to the mainland below the Prince Consort Gardens. Dated 1862, opened 1867. Designed by Eugenius Birch. Ironwork by the Isca Foundry of Newport, Gwent. Iron girder piers with cross girders to side of deck. Deck supports and tubular iron legs, with outward splay, grouped in fours and linked by braces. Wooden deck is flanked by continuous cantilevered seating with curved open-work backs and hand rails and swan-neck stanchions. Small bays project at intervals along the sides. Cast iron lamp standards, to sides of pier.
Listing NGR: ST3070362481
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 33180
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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