Birnbeck Pier, Birnbeck Rd, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset BS23 2EF

Birnbeck Pier, Birnbeck Rd, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset BS23 2EF

 

 

Overview

 

Heritage Category: Listed Building

Grades: GVII* + 3 x GVII

Date first listed: 19-May-1983

District: North Somerset (Unitary Authority)

Parish: Weston-Super-Mare

National Grid Reference: ST 30703 62481

 

 

Birnbeck Pier Main pier connects Birnbeck

List Entry Number: 1137515

GV II* Main pier connects Birnbeck Island to the mainland below the Prince Consort Gardens. Dated 1862, opened 1867. Designed by Eugenius Birch. Ironwork by the Isca Foundry of Newport, Gwent. Iron girder piers with cross girders to side of deck. Deck supports and tubular iron legs, with outward splay, grouped in fours and linked by braces. Wooden deck is flanked by continuous cantilevered seating with curved open-work backs and hand rails and swan-neck stanchions. Small bays project at intervals along the sides. Cast iron lamp standards, to sides of pier.

 

Birnbeck PierLifeboat House and Slipway

List Entry Number: 1129718

GVII BIRNBECK PIER Lifeboat House and Slipway GV 2. Dated 1902. Squared rubble, modern tiled roof. Coped gable end has date stone under pediment. Slipway has paired concreted columns with girder bracing. Included for group value.

 

Birnbeck Pier Clock Tower

List Entry Number: 1320709

GVII Late C19 limestone rubble with tiled ogee roof. Square tower: clock faces on 4 sides above plat band.

 

Birnbeck Pier North Jetty

List Entry Number: 1137504

GVII North Jetty. Probably late 1860's but extensively repaired 1903-1905. Runs north from the island. Iron cross-girders support the deck. Coupled tubular shafts with diagonal braces run from the sea to the girders. At outer end a landing stage, with densely clustered supports with some diagonal bracing on south side. Tiny pavilion.

 

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