Pier & Pavilion is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. Pier and pavilion.

Pier & Pavilion

WRENN ID
fading-tin-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
24 November 1987
Type
Pier and pavilion
Address
Pier & Pavilion, Aberystwyth
OS grid reference
SN 581 818
Coordinates
52.41575, -4.0877
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Pier and Pavilion is a structure built on a 14-day substructure with cast-iron piles made at Greens Foundry. It features a narrow pier at the seaward end and boarded sides on the pavilion. The landward end has an aisle with pointed clerestory windows and leaded roofs, along with a tunnel vaulted high roof that includes a plinth ridge and cresting. The building is two stories tall at the northwest end, also with a tunnel roof. The southwest side has small-pane sash windows, several of which are blocked, and there are similar tripartite windows on the northeast side. Access to the pavilion is from the promenade through a gated forecourt, although there have been commercialized alterations to the front. A triple arched entrance leads to an amusement arcade below a large petal pattern fanlight that illuminates the pavilion hall. The interior retains cast-iron arcades, foliated capitals, and transverse and longitudinal lattice work girders.

Local climate

Pier & Pavilion sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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