South Parade Pier

South Parade Pier is a pier built in 1908, designed by G.E. Smith. The concert hall area was reconstructed after a severe fire in 1975. The pier is constructed from iron, timber, and stucco, with lead-covered flat roofs, and a curved roof to the central part.

The pier features a single storey and is supported by iron columns with outcurving iron rails leading to the promenade deck. Lower ornamental iron panels are positioned between the uprights. The entrance facing South Parade has an open glazed canopy supported on cast-iron columns with Ionic caps extending to the pavement. Flanking the canopy are octagonal iron colonnaded kiosks with scallop-patterned leaded domes. To the left of the pier entrance are four later 20th-century glass doors, and to the right are kiosks with a central two-leaf half-glazed door, a shop window casement on the left, and a three-leaf casement on the right. An open entrance to the promenade deck, with a hipped roof, is further left, supported by a square iron column with a horizontal boarded side panel. To the right is a later 20th-century single-story structure covering the promenade. There are two pairs of two-leaf glass doors, and a parapet. Square timber horizontal boarded towers rise from roof level at each corner, featuring a timber balustrade between wide timber corner posts with curved weathered caps and projecting timber dentils below the balustrade. A square window tower is set back from the balustrade with a three-light casement on each side, set under a segmental timber arch, a cornice, and a low-pitched pyramidal roof.

On the left return, facing east, the promenade deck extends southwards from the Concert Hall, leading to an octagonal promenade area (former bandstand) at the far end. The right-hand part of the pier has a three-light casement set under a segmental timber arch with flanking splayed pilasters, within a recessed panel, on the right adjacent to the promenade entrance. A five-light casement is centrally positioned beneath a flat arch, with a fascia and a round-headed casement with a timber pediment over the centre three lights. A timber tower, similar to that at the main entrance, is located on the far left of the right part. Set back, the central part of the pier is characterised by large tripartite transomed bow windows with a fascia and cornice. The right-hand bow features a central two-leaf door. A large three-leaf casement is centrally placed and to the left of the left-hand bow, a two-leaf door. Doors and windows are flanked by boarded timber pilasters with moulded caps and bases. The rebuilt Concert Hall from 1975 is located on the left.