Description

GRIMSBY

TA2711SE HENDERSON STREET, The Docks
699-1/5/123 (West side)
Peterson's fish processing and
smoking factory

GV II

Fish processing and smoking factory. Late C19 and early C20,
with later alterations. Red brick with concrete tile roof.
EXTERIOR: front to Henderson Street has 2 storeys, 7
first-floor openings; symmetrical, with taller smoking tower
to rear, facing Brown Street. Henderson Street front: original
sliding board door to far left, later C20 sliding door to far
right, 3 3-light windows between. First floor has large
recessed painted name panel in raised brick surround, flanked
by single loading doors; 3 4-light windows above, single
2-light windows to far left and right. All windows with
recessed metal casements with glazing bars, rounded brick
sills; doors and windows beneath ashlar lintels. Stepped brick
eaves. Timber hoist arms above first-floor doors.
Brown Street front has segmental-arched ground-floor door to
right; pair of small windows to first-floor right, one beneath
a segmental arch. Narrow smoking tower rises to 3-storey
height and extends nearly full width of building. Upper
section has row of 9 small blocked ventilator openings, and a
later additional 10th flue to the right. Top of tower has 10
truncated pyramidal caps of rendered brick, the 9 to left with
dormer-style ventilators to front and rear, and all 10 with
projecting square-section brick tops, 7 carrying tall metal
cowls above.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
One of a series of small fish processing and smoking factories
at Grimsby, dating from the period when Grimsby was one of the
foremost fishing centres in the world. Listed as the better of
the 2 surviving smoking houses here with this particular
design of smoking tower and cowling. Of additional interest as
part of a close group of smoking-houses of various dates and
designs in the square bounded by Surtees Street, Brown Street
and Sidebottom Street (qv).

Listing NGR: TA2797611035

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660072

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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