The Promenade Pier is a Grade II listed building in the local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1976. Pier. 5 related planning applications.
The Promenade Pier
- WRENN ID
- riven-cupola-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight East MP: Joe Robertson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1976
- Type
- Pier
- Address
- The Promenade Pier, Ryde, Isle of Wight
- OS grid reference
- SZ 593 933
- Coordinates
- 50.73698, -1.16091
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Promenade Pier was begun in 1813 and extended and altered throughout the 19th century, ultimately reaching a length of half a mile. It features a cast iron column and girder structure with a planked promenade deck. The cast iron balustrade includes scroll, oval, and linked circle decorated panels from around 1880. Along its length, there are shelters that project seawards, supported by turned wood columns with dragon or gryphon cast iron brackets, topped with a hipped leaded roof that has fretted iron eaves. The pier head was altered with the construction of a station. Notably, it was at Ryde Pier that the Empress Eugenie landed from Sir John Burgoyne's yacht "The Gazelle" after her escape from Paris in 1870.
Local climate
The Promenade Pier receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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