Petersons Fish Processing And Smoking Factory

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