Category Archives: Completed Projects

REDCAR TOWN CLOCK

After falling into disrepair the grade II listed King Edward VII Memorial Clock Tower – locally known as the Town Clock – was restored by the Trust in partnership with the Friends of Redcar Town Clock and owners Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council. The work was funded by grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Northern Rock Foundation.

FRIARAGE MANOR HOUSE

The Trust commissioned a feasibility study which was instrumental in persuading the Hartlepool-based Henry Smith Trust to dispose of this fragment of a grade II listed 17th century manor house to developers for conversion to apartments. Work is expected to start soon.

WINKIE’S CASTLE MUSEUM

When shoe-maker Jack Anderson died in 2001 he left this tiny museum housed in a grade II listed 17th century cottage in Marske-by-the-Sea, in trust to the local Council. Unable to provide either staff or funds to continue to operate the museum the Council asked the Trust for help. In partnership with the Council, the Friends of Winkies Castle and using grants from local donors and One-North-East’s Coastal Arc project, the museum was completely refurbished and re-established. The Trust and the Friends still operate it today in partnership with Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council.

CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, KIRKLEATHAM

In 2001, following the theft of lead from the roof of this Grade I listed building, the Trust in partnership with The Bosanquet Fund for Kirkleatham, part-funded urgently needed repairs. The following year an analysis of historic paint layers was funded, to ascertain the church’s original Georgian interior colour scheme.

FIRST WORLD WAR ACOUSTIC MIRROR, THE INGS, REDCAR

Using limited funds and offers ‘in kind’ from local businesses, volunteers and the local authority, this previously neglected grade II* listed early warning station on Holyhead Drive, Redcar, was tidied up in 2001. Landscaping works were carried out and an information plaque provided. This fascinating structure is now a Scheduled Monument of national interest.

IVY HOUSE, COWPEN BEWLEY, NEAR BILLINGHAM

Abandoned in the 1970s this Grade II* listed 17th century farmhouse and its Grade II listed stable and hayloft, on The Green in Cowpen Bewley village, near Billingham, fell rapidly into disrepair. Owners I.C.I. Chemicals and Polymers Ltd found it would not be financially viable to restore the buildings and in 1995 handed them over to the Trust, along with a small cash donation. After securing a grant from English Heritage and a loan from the Architectural Heritage Fund the repair and refurbishment works were completed by the Trust in 1998 and the house and stable were sold to new owners.

HART MILL

The tower and surviving machinery of the windmill at Hart near Hartlepool, were rescued from near loss in partnership with the Employment Training Programme and Hartlepool housebuilders Cecil M. Yuill. The work included restoration of the tower and mill machinery and re-creation of the revolving cap (roof) and sail stocks.

SALTBURN WAR MEMORIAL


Saltburn War Memorial after restoration

The grade II* listed Saltburn War Memorial project was led by Tees Heritage Trust Ltd in partnership with the Friends of Saltburn War Memorial and Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council.

Gifted to the town by anonymous donors, the memorial was designed in the Arts-and-Crafts style by American born sculptor Sir William Reynolds-Stephens (1862-1943) and was unveiled and dedicated on Sunday 14th November 1920.

Funds for the recent conservation work were raised by the local community – £19,381 – topped up with two gifts, each of £3,000 from the Lt Col. N.L. Cohen Charitable Trust and the Les Bell Family Fund.


Eura Conservation Ltd working on memorial

Conservation specialists Eura Conservation Ltd were appointed to sensitively repair and stabilise the granite cross and weathered and decayed sculpture, restoring it as close as possible to its original appearance. Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council recently embellished the memorial’s setting by installing new wooden benches, a flagpole and wreath rail under their Public Realm capital programme while Carillion Plc re-laid free-of-charge the stone paving around the War Memorial and structural survey work was donated by Consulting Engineers and Surveyors Billinghurst George & Partners.

Saltburn War Memorial was re-dedicated at a special event on Sunday 2nd October 2016 to mark the completion of the essential conservation and improvement works.

Saltburn War Memorial before restoration