The Waterfront is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 1998. Restaurant. 6 related planning applications.

The Waterfront

WRENN ID
gaunt-bastion-umber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Plymouth
Constituency
Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 November 1998
Type
Restaurant
Address
The Waterfront, Grand Parade, City of Plymouth, PL1 3DF
OS grid reference
SX 473 536
Coordinates
50.36318, -4.14758
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Waterfront is a harbourside pavilion that has been converted into a restaurant. It was built in the late 19th century and features a stucco exterior with Tuscan pilasters or half-columns that separate the bays, along with a moulded entablature. The building has a panelled parapet topped with a moulded cornice and a flat roof. Its symmetrical design includes a front with bowed window bays on either side of a square central porch, with bowed wings that are set back on both sides. The structure is a single storey and has 20th-century windows in each bay, except for the half-domed niches beside the wings. All windows have glazing bars, including the central round-arched porch window that features a fanlight head. There are glazed doors on the sides of the porch. The interior has not been inspected. The building is included for its group value.

Local climate

The Waterfront 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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