Walls and Railings to Road Frontage by West Hoe Pier is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 1998. Walls and railings. 1 related planning application.

Walls and Railings to Road Frontage by West Hoe Pier

WRENN ID
dusted-parapet-falcon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Plymouth
Constituency
Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 November 1998
Type
Walls and railings
Address
Walls and Railings to Road Frontage by West Hoe Pier, Grand Parade, City of Plymouth, PL1 3DE
OS grid reference
SX 473 536
Coordinates
50.36322, -4.14766
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The walls and railings at the road frontage by West Hoe Pier in Plymouth date from the late 19th century. They are constructed from Plymouth limestone rubble, topped with dressed freestone copings. The walls are adorned with ornate cast-iron railings featuring a round-arch-over-arch design, with octagonal pyramid-on-inverted-pyramid finials on the stanchions and arrow-head finials on the shafts.

Local climate

Walls and Railings to Road Frontage by 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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