Pier & Pavilion

Pier and Pavilion erected on a 14-day substructure with cast-iron piles made at Greens Foundry; narrow pier to seaward end; boarded sides to pavilion. Aisled to landward end with pointed clerestory windows; leaded roofs, tunnel vaulted high roof with plinth ridge and cresting. 2-storey to NW end with tunnel roof. Small-pane sash windows to SW side, several blocked; some similar tripartite windows to NE side. Pavilion entered from the promenade through gated forecourt, commercialized alterations to front. Triple arched entrance to amusement arcade below large petal pattern fanlight lighting pavilion hall, the interior of which retains cast-iron arcades, foliated capitals and transverse and longitudinal lattice work girders.