80 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*

Church of St EunyGrade II* listedSara's Foundry, Town MillGrade II* listedRailway footbridge, Redruth stationGrade II listedFormer Lamb and Flag Coffee TavernGrade II listedRailway viaductGrade II listed+3See all photos

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

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Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

Historic England lists buildings in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest (about 2.5% of all listed buildings), Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest (about 5.8%), and Grade II for buildings of special interest (about 91.7%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on the National Heritage List for England whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).

Of the 80 entries, 21 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

Historic England’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.

The first 5 entries were listed in 1951. 51 came in 1989, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 6 have been added in the last 15 years.

World Heritage

Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.

34% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 9.9% of today’s homes.

Valuation Office Agency, council tax stock of properties by build period, 31 March 2025, for the neighbourhoods (LSOAs) that make up the town, split by where their residents live. Homes with no recorded build period (49 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Thomas Haweis

Henry Roach

William James Webbe

John Thomas Blight

Fanny Moody

Sidney Toy

Hilda Moody

James Davey

Bert Solomon

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James Davey1880–1951 · British rugby union player (1880–1951)

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Bert Solomon1885–1961 · English rugby union player (1885–1961)

Thomas Haweis1734–1820 · Church minister

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William James Webbe1830–1904 · British painter and illustrator (1830-1904)

John Thomas Blight1835–1911 · Cornish archaeological artist (1835-1911)

Fanny Moody1866–1945 · English opera singer (1866-1945)

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Sidney Toy1875–1967 · British historian (1875-1967)

Henry Roach1808–1889 · English-Australian miner (1808-1889)

Everyone born in Redruth → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Old houses are part of Redruth’s character: 37% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 80 listed buildings, including Church of St Euny. Its older streets lie in 3 conservation areas, the first designated in 1974. Most entries on the list, 58%, are houses, terraces and villas.

Of the 9 people born here before 1900, the best known include James Davey (1880), Bert Solomon (1885) and Thomas Haweis (1734). The big year was 1989, when 51 of the 80 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; and per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.