West Pier is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Pier.

West Pier

WRENN ID
muffled-portal-heath
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Pier
Address
West Pier, Whitehaven
OS grid reference
NX 966 185
Coordinates
54.55181, -3.59929
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

West Pier is a stone pier built by engineer John Rennie between 1824 and 1839.

Local climate

West Pier sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,560 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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