Yarmouth Pier

YARMOUTH PIER, PIER STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1220794
Date first listed:
24-Nov-1975
List Entry Name:
Yarmouth Pier
Statutory Address:
YARMOUTH PIER, PIER STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1220794
Date first listed:
24-Nov-1975
List Entry Name:
Yarmouth Pier
Statutory Address 1:
YARMOUTH PIER, PIER STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
YARMOUTH PIER, PIER STREET

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

District:
Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Yarmouth
National Grid Reference:
SZ3544489826

Details

YARMOUTH

SZ3589 PIER STREET
1354-0/10/380 Yarmouth Pier
24/11/75


GV II

Pier. Built in 1876 by a local contractor J Denham of
Freshwater. Built of timber piers with wooden handrail 700
feet in length. Groups of 4 piers support a wooden platform
with wooden handrail and trellised supports. Small octagonal
pavilion with polygonal roof and weathervane at pier head.
Shore end has pavilion of c.1927. This has a brick curved
gable with stone dressings, a cartouche of the Yarmouth Town
Trust, 2 round-headed windows and double door. Sides are
weatherboarded and the roof is now covered in asbestos slates.
(V.C.H. Hampshire: 286).


Listing NGR: SZ3544489828

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393274
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Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1912), 286

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Yarmouth Pier

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