THE WEST PIER
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1381655
- Date first listed:
- 09-Oct-1969
- Statutory Address:
- THE WEST PIER, KINGS ROAD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE WEST PIER, KINGS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ3031403958
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3003NW KING'S ROAD
577-1/44/369 (South side)
09/10/69 The West Pier
GV I
Pier. 1865-6. By Eusebius Birch. Cast and wrought-iron, wood,
glass and lead.
EXTERIOR: the structure of the pier consists of cast-iron
columns carrying beams and girders with diagonal bracing and
lighter struts. The pier was particularly badly damaged by the
hurricane of October 1987; and the causeway leading from
King's Road to the former concert hall was demolished in 1991,
along with the kiosk at the north end of the concert hall. The
principal surviving structures are the former concert hall,
the former theatre, and the kiosks at the north end of the
theatre.
The concert hall is oval in plan and consists of a continuous
arcade of elliptically-arched tripartite windows between
pilasters, with decorative voussoirs; parapet with cartouches
and swags and urns on pilasters; coved roof, the central part
having dormers on either side and continuous toplight with
pedimented ends from which a decorative balustrade of scrolled
profiles runs down to the parapet.
On the final stage of the platform, there are octagonal kiosks
flanking the north end of the former theatre, of cast- and
wrought-iron with roofs of lead; cast-iron columns on bases
with a round-arched aracade between, the details of the
opening originally loosely resembling those of a Palladian
window; brackets to deep eaves; shallow coved roof with
lantern. There is a smaller, ogee-roofed kiosk to the west of
the theatre. The theatre itself is of 3 storeys with a
verandah to ground floor on the west and a roof coved in 2
stages; small towers to either side of north end with ogee
roofs, and a 3-storey porch wing between them.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ3031403958
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482018
- 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.
End of official listing
