Tinside Colonnade, Promenade and Sun Terrace Including Railings Above is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 2000. Promenade. 15 related planning applications.

Tinside Colonnade, Promenade and Sun Terrace Including Railings Above

WRENN ID
unlit-clay-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Plymouth
Constituency
Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 February 2000
Type
Promenade
Address
Tinside Colonnade, Promenade and Sun Terrace Including Railings Above, Hoe Road, City of Plymouth
OS grid reference
SX 476 537
Coordinates
50.36358, -4.14283
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tinside Colonnade is a structure built in 1935 by J. Wibberley, the Plymouth City architect and engineer, with construction by Nuttall and Sons and John Mowlem and Company. It serves as a supporting structure for the promenade and sun terrace above the pavement and road, which are not of special interest. The colonnade features reinforced concrete construction, with a long double-curved promenade and sun terraces below. Above, there is a cantilevered canopy that supports Hoe Road, which is held up by a series of piers with cantilevers to the canopy soffit. The terrace, promenade, and road are enclosed by tubular steel and iron railings. On the back wall beneath the promenade canopy, there is a moulded relief map of Plymouth and the surrounding areas. Known as the Tinside Colonnade, it was part of the Lido, which aimed to enhance the bathing facilities in Plymouth.

Local climate

Tinside Colonnade, Promenade and Sun Terrace Including Railings Above 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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