Swanage Pier is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 December 1975. A C19 Pier. 2 related planning applications.
Swanage Pier
- WRENN ID
- little-barrel-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1975
- Type
- Pier
- Address
- Swanage Pier, High Street
- OS grid reference
- SZ 035 787
- Coordinates
- 50.60813, -1.95091
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swanage Pier, built in 1893, features a main structure made of green-heart timber, complemented by an ornamental cast iron handrail. The pier has a two-tier head with a small kiosk.
Local climate
Swanage Pier receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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