Zetland Lifeboat Museum and Redcar Heritage Centre, and attached wall

The Zetland Lifeboat Museum and Redcar Heritage Centre, along with its attached wall, is a building constructed in 1877 as the United Free Gardners Lifeboat House. It now serves as a museum, with the second-floor lookout currently functioning as a coastguard station. The building underwent alterations in the early and mid-20th century, including the addition of a third-floor lookout cabin. It features brickwork in English garden wall bond and a Welsh slate roof, with a concrete roof on the coastguard station. The lookout cabin is made of brick and timber, topped with a steel balustrade.

The structure is three stories tall with a single bay front. The wide entrance for the lifeboat now contains mid-20th-century part-glazed doors, sidelights, and overlights, all set within an altered slender timber pilaster-and-entablature surround. The upper floors have paired sash windows with painted sills, while the first floor features cambered brick arches over concrete lintels on the second floor. On either side of the first-floor windows are stone plaques with sculptured arms; the left plaque bears the name "United Free Gardners," dated 1877, and the right plaque is inscribed with "Emma Dawson." Similar carved monograms can be found below these plaques. The building has a flat roof with a post-and-rail balustrade and a flat-roofed cabin.

On the right return, the building is three stories at the left end and two stories at the right. There is a part-glazed door with sidelights and an overlight, flanked by altered windows in their original openings, which have painted lintels and sills. To the right, there is a sash window with glazing bars, along with an altered door and overlight, both featuring cambered heads. The first floor has five windows, with the middle one being a canted bay topped with a moulded cornice. All first-floor windows have sashes, painted sills, and cambered heads, while the second floor has paired sash windows. The building has end and ridge stacks, and a high wall encloses a small covered rear yard, which includes a boarded door and overlight with a cambered head. A lower two-story rear extension is present but is not of special interest.

Originally built for the "Emma" lifeboat, which was in service from 1877 to 1884, the museum now houses the "Zetland" lifeboat, recognized as the oldest surviving lifeboat in the world. The building is included in the listing for its historical significance.