Birnbeck Pier is a Grade II* listed building in the local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1983. A Victorian Pier.
Birnbeck Pier
- WRENN ID
- pale-groin-elm
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Constituency
- Weston-super-Mare MP: Dan Aldridge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1983
- Type
- Pier
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Birnbeck Pier, Weston-Super-Mare, North Somerset
- OS grid reference
- ST 307 624
- Coordinates
- 51.35715, -2.9966
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birnbeck Pier is a significant structure that connects Birnbeck Island to the mainland, located below the Prince Consort Gardens. It was dated 1862 and officially opened in 1867, designed by Eugenius Birch. The pier features ironwork produced by the Isca Foundry of Newport, Gwent. It has iron girder piers with cross girders on the sides of the deck. The deck is supported by tubular iron legs that are outwardly splayed, grouped in fours, and connected by braces. A wooden deck is bordered by continuous cantilevered seating, which has curved open-work backs, handrails, and swan-neck stanchions. Small bays extend out at intervals along the sides of the pier, which also includes cast iron lamp standards positioned along its length.
Local climate
Birnbeck Pier receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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