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Redruth Market Day on Saturday 7th of August 2021

The Redruth Town Centre and the Highstreet have a rich history and some important heritage features and stories which are still visible around town in shop fronts and local landmarks. The Local Heritage List Pilot project aims to capture some of the favourite and most important assets for people and the community in what is considered a distinctive character of the area.

Once the urban centre of the Cornish Mining industry, Redruth is now at the heart of the World Heritage Site.

This year, the Buttermarket  has been listed at Grade II by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) on the advice of Historic England. 

In the past, due to a lack of protection , some buildings were lost like the Tabbs Hotel, Redruth (kernowbeat.co.uk)

Do you know of any features, landmarks or places of Redruth that make it unique? Come find us at the next Redruth Market Day, on the first Saturday of every month or email: LocalList@cornwall.gov.uk

This is the China Clay area which covers the Local Heritage List focus for the pilot project.

Explore the interactive map and when registered you can add an asset to the List.

This is the Redruth town centre area of interest for the Local Heritage List Pilot.

Explore the interactive map and when registered you can add an asset to the List.

We are particularly keen to work with a diverse range of people, to ensure that a variety of heritage assets are nominated for inclusion in the local heritage list pilot. Once on the list, these assets become known as Non-Designated Heritage Assets (NDHAs). They differ from those sites that have statutory protection and national designations, such as Listed Buildings, Scheduled Monuments and Registered Parks and Gardens.

Local heritage listing is carried out by people like you, of the communities who live, work and learn in an area and are best placed to understand and identify their heritage. It is about identifying aspects of our past which have value and meaning so that this can be studied and understood in order to pass it onto future generations. It can also be used to help guide decisions about new development.

You can volunteer to add the entries to the Local Heritage List by emailing LocalList@cornwall.gov.uk