Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
253
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/08/1975
Date of Amendment
25/07/1994
Name of Property
Victoria Pier
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Colwyn Bay
Town
Locality
Colwyn Bay
Easting
285281
Northing
379230
Street Side
N
Location
Prominently sited at about the mid-point of the bay.
Description
Broad Class
Maritime
Period
History
The pier was developed by a private company, and was designed by Messrs. Mangnalls and Littlewood of Manchester, architects and engineers. The contractors were the Widnes Foundry Company. The original pavilion was destroyed by fire in 1923. There were further fires in the pavilion and the theatre at the end of the pier in 1933, and the pavilion that replaced these was a smaller structure.
Exterior
The pier is linked to the promenade by a massive stone retaining wall which curves upwards from the low level walkway of the promenade to the higher level of the roadway. The pier itself has a substructure of cast iron columns with composite capitals and wrought iron lattice work. Wooden deck with cast iron balustrading, formed of panels of interlaced foliated incorporating a monogram. The pier extends from the land in 4 sections. The first has small pavilion entrance booths and an amusement hall which replace earlier structures. The hall extends out to the westernmost edge, but an open gangway remains to the east. The second section extends out to the east, and it carried the pavilion, the present structure again a modern replacement of earlier buildings lost in successive fires. The main superstructure incorporates circular projections at its 2 eastern corners, but the original balustrading is lost where the pavilion extends to the E boundary of the pier. Linking the main pavilion with the landward hall is the remains of a length of arcade which one formed a covered way. Cast iron columns with fan-decoration in the spandrels. Beyond the pavilion, the third section forms the main length of the pier, of about the same length as the first section, with 4 pairs of rectangular projections.
Interior
Reason for designation
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