West Hoe Pier is a Grade II listed building in the local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. Pier. 2 related planning applications.

West Hoe Pier

WRENN ID
long-zinc-oak
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Constituency
Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 May 1975
Type
Pier
Address
West Hoe Pier, Grand Parade, City of Plymouth, PL1 3BZ
OS grid reference
SX 474 536
Coordinates
50.36333, -4.14667
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

West Hoe Pier is a structure built in 1880, located in Plymouth. It consists of piers and walls that enclose a basin, constructed from Plymouth limestone rubble laid to course. The basin has an irregular plan with a retaining wall on the landward side, short shaped return walls, and two jetties that run approximately parallel to the shore, with a harbour entrance in between. There are steps with landings, including a broad flight of steps leading to the shore wall, another flight to the right-hand wall on the seaward side, and three flights of recessed steps leading to the jetties, with a seaward flight to each jetty and an inner flight to the right-hand jetty.

Local climate

West Hoe Pier sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% 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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