Bandstand

The bandstand is a late 19th-century structure located on the North Embankment in Dartmouth. It features a cast-iron design supported by a base made of brick, stone, and concrete, with timber screens and a lead roof. The octagonal bandstand is held up by eight slender cast-iron columns, which have small capitals and decorative scrolled brackets. These brackets support an octagonal canopy with a flat painted board ceiling divided into eight segments, leading to a low truncated pyramidal canopy topped by a cast-iron octagonal dome with a pinnacle. The columns, marked with the name of the Kirkintilloch Iron Foundry, are set into a raised concrete plinth approximately 6.5 meters in diameter.

On the southwest side, three granite steps rise through deep bull-nosed coping to the platform, which is finished in asphalt. The columns are connected by a continuous cast-iron balustrade, which opens to steps where gate posts are topped with ball finials, although the gates themselves are missing. The bandstand also features two sets of three part-glazed full-height timber sliding panels that run on a continuous iron track, allowing them to be positioned anywhere around the structure for wind screening or to reflect sound. This bandstand is a very characteristic and elegant example of Victorian design.