The Promenade Pier
THE PROMENADE PIER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239551
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1976
- List Entry Name:
- The Promenade Pier
- Statutory Address:
- THE PROMENADE PIER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239551
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1976
- List Entry Name:
- The Promenade Pier
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PROMENADE 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:
- THE PROMENADE PIER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ryde
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 59308 93377
Details
The Promenade Pier 1. 1577 SZ 5992 3/375 SZ 59 SE 7/375
II
2. Begun in 1813, extended and altered through the C19, reaching a length of half a mile. Cast iron column and girder structure - planked promenade deck. Cast iron balustrade with scroll, oval and linked circle decorated panels of circa 1880. Shelters projecting intermittently seawards along its length; turned wood columns with dragon/gryphon cast iron brackets to hipped leaded roof with fretted iron eaves. Pier head altered with building of station. It was at Ryde Pier that the Empress Eugenielanded from Sir John Burgoyne's yacht "The Gazelle" after her flight from Paris in 1870.
Listing NGR: SZ5930893377
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 417474
- 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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