Shelter by Smeatons Tower, The Promenade is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 1998. Shelter.

Shelter by Smeatons Tower, The Promenade

WRENN ID
kindled-barrel-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Plymouth
Constituency
Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 November 1998
Type
Shelter
Address
Shelter by Smeatons Tower, The Promenade, the Hoe, City of Plymouth
OS grid reference
SX 477 537
Coordinates
50.36425, -4.14171
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Shelter by Smeaton's Tower, located on The Promenade in Plymouth, is a late 19th-century structure situated in a public park. It features a cast-iron frame with wooden partitions and seats, topped by a hipped dry slate roof that has deep projecting eaves. The shelter has a rectangular plan with recessed seating on each side. The roof is supported by a central column at either end and four pairs of slender turned and carved columns, which are adorned with arabesque brackets that hold up a decorated frieze. The slatted seats rest on ornate cast-iron supports, and the ceiling is boarded. This shelter is part of a notable group of garden buildings on the Hoe, which were extended and replanned in the 1880s.

Local climate

Shelter by Smeatons Tower, The Promenade 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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