Building Name

Proposed Pier, Torquay

District/Town
Torquay
County/Country
Devon, England
Client
The Marine Piers Company Limited
Work
Proposed design

The pier at Torquay will be of a character suitable to the peculiar requirements of that town. A special feature will be the erection of a covered way along the pier, offering protection against the wind to delicate persons. Its length will be 1,100 feet, and the pavilion (which will be covered in) will be sufficiently large to accommodate 1,500 persons. [Times 9 August 1880 page 13]

Works were to comprise a promenade pier, jetty, and landing-place, with all proper works, sea-walls, terraces, approaches, tollhouses, toll-gates, buildings, and other conveniences connected therewith for the embarking and landing of passengers, and for other purposes, commencing at a point on the southern side of New Road, opposite the centre of Abbey Crescent, and equidistant or about 37 yards from either end of Abbey Crescent, and extending thence seaward in a southerly direction for a distance of 436 yards or thereabouts, where it was to terminate. In May 1882 a winding-up order was issued against the Marine Piers Company Limited

Reference    Times 9 August 1880 page 13 - prospectus
Reference    London Gazette 29 November 1881, page 6226