Royal Pier and Entrance Building

ROYAL PIER AND ENTRANCE BUILDING, TOWN QUAY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1179259
Date first listed:
04-Jan-1980
List Entry Name:
Royal Pier and Entrance Building
Statutory Address:
ROYAL PIER AND ENTRANCE BUILDING, TOWN QUAY
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1179259
Date first listed:
04-Jan-1980
List Entry Name:
Royal Pier and Entrance Building
Statutory Address 1:
ROYAL PIER AND ENTRANCE BUILDING, TOWN QUAY

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ROYAL PIER AND ENTRANCE BUILDING, TOWN QUAY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
City of Southampton (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SU 41746 10911

Details

1. TOWN QUAY 5239 Royal Pier and Entrance Building SU 4111 3/249 SU 41 SW 10/249 4.1.80

II

2. Opened 1833 by Princess, later Queen, Victoria. Cast iron piers with wooden flooring and later iron railing. Later C19 partitions. The entrance is an early C20 building. Two storeys stuccoed having a dome with pineapple finial band windows, console brackets and stylised flambeaux. Parapet and dentil cornice. Ionic columns. Sash windows. The ground floor has engaged Tuscan columns and a bowed entrance projection.

Listing NGR: SU4207010929

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
135946
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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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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