Halden Pier, Torquay Harbour is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1994. Pier. 3 related planning applications.

Halden Pier, Torquay Harbour

WRENN ID
winding-joist-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torbay
Constituency
Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 May 1994
Type
Pier
OS grid reference
SX 916 630
Coordinates
50.4572, -3.52706
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Halden Pier is a pier located in Torquay Harbour, built in 1867. The engineer was J.P. Margery, with James Mountstephen as the contractor and Sir Lawrence Palk as the patron. The pier is constructed from local grey limestone rubble, much of which was sourced from the lowering of Beacon Hill. It serves as an outer pier or breakwater, measuring approximately 300 meters in length, providing additional protection for the old harbour and creating a larger outer harbour. The construction cost nearly £70,000 and it is an important feature of the 19th-century harbour at Torquay.

Local climate

Halden Pier, Torquay Harbour receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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