Redcar - Landmarks

Landmarks

There are some twenty three listed buildings in Redcar. At the west end of High Street is a Grade II listed clock tower, a memorial to King Edward VII who was a regular visitor to Redcar. This tower has now been refurbished.

On the sea front stands the grand Victorian edifice of the former Coatham Hotel. The ballroom of the hotel was home to the Redcar Jazz Club, a popular venue for the up-and-coming bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Also on the sea front is the grade II listed Zetland Lifeboat Museum operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) housing the Zetland Lifeboat, the world's oldest surviving lifeboat.

To the east of Redcar is the Church of St. Peter designed by Ignatius Bonomi built 1822-28 and now a listed building.

In the south east of Redcar is an aircraft listening post built in 1916 during the First World War as part of a regional defence system to detect approaching aircraft, principally Zeppelins, and give early warning. It is an example of an acoustic mirror, of which other examples can be found along the eastern coast of Britain. The mirror was used up until the invention of radar and although it was built on open fields today a modern housing estate now surrounds it. Only the concrete sound mirror remains and is now a grade II listed building.

• Former Coatham Hotel, Newcomen Terrace

• The Clock Tower,* High Street

• The Zetland Lifeboat Museum,* Esplanade

• The Church of St. Peter*

• Sound mirror*

* listed building