The Pier including Parallel Slipway

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.