Southport Pier is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1975. Pleasure pier. 5 related planning applications.

Southport Pier

WRENN ID
strange-plaster-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sefton
Constituency
Southport MP: Patrick Hurley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 August 1975
Type
Pleasure pier
Address
Southport Pier, Promenade, PR8 1QX
OS grid reference
SD 330 178
Coordinates
53.65313, -3.01507
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Southport Pier is a pleasure pier built between 1859 and 1860 by J. Brunlees and constructed by W. and J. Galloway. It was extended in 1864 and 1868 to reach a length of 1,342 meters. The pier was shortened after a fire in 1897, and both the pier head and pavilion were destroyed by another fire in 1933. Further fire damage occurred in 1959. The structure is made of cast iron and wood, featuring four rows of linked cast-iron columns that support girders, with a wooden boarded deck. A café was added at the seaward end in 1963, and the entrance range was rebuilt in 1970.

Local climate

Southport Pier sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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