The Pier including Parallel Slipway is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 May 1975. House.
The Pier including Parallel Slipway
- WRENN ID
- lesser-parapet-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Pier including Parallel Slipway, New Quay
- OS grid reference
- SN 390 601
- Coordinates
- 52.216, -4.35689
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Pier, including the Parallel Slipway, was built by Daniel Beynon, who modified plans created in 1820 by John Rennie. It features massive squared rubble blocks, with some sections replaced by concrete on the sloping outer face due to storm damage in 1938. The pier has a curving design and consists of two high steps. The lower quay wall has a slightly battered face and includes four inset flights of stone steps, followed by a broad stone flagged deck. Above this is the high raking upper part, which also has four inset flights of steps and is capped by an upper walkway with a heavy stone parapet on the north side. At the end of the upper deck, there was a 'pepperpot' lighthouse built in 1859, which replaced an earlier lighthouse destroyed in the 1839 'Royal Charter' storm; this lighthouse was itself wrecked in the 1938 storm. In front of the Pier Building, there is a broad stone slipway that runs parallel to the Pier.
Local climate
The Pier including Parallel Slipway sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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