West Pier, Harbour, Pennan is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Harbour pier.
West Pier, Harbour, Pennan
- WRENN ID
- errant-wall-mist
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Type
- Harbour pier
- OS grid reference
- NJ 846 655
- Coordinates
- 57.67983, -2.2587
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Pier, located at the Harbour in Pennan, was constructed in 1854 for the eastern pier and between 1903 and 1904 for the western pier, designed by engineer James Barron, on an earlier harbour site. The structure is made of tooled square rubble with some concrete dressings and facings.
The eastern pier was extended in 1909 by engineer Mr. Stevenson from Edinburgh and projects straight out into the sea. The western pier is shaped like a shallow U-plan, with the two piers meeting to form the harbour entrance, which encloses a polygonal basin that faces the shoreline to the south. The seaward face of each pier is raised as a seawall to protect the quayside, and a shallow concrete slipway extends from the shore.
Local climate
West Pier, Harbour, Pennan 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 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% 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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