Petersons Fish Processing And Smoking Factory

Peterson's fish processing and smoking factory is a building from the late 19th century and early 20th century, with later alterations. It is constructed of red brick and features a concrete tile roof.

The front facing Henderson Street has two storeys and seven first-floor openings, arranged symmetrically, with a taller smoking tower at the rear, facing Brown Street. On the Henderson Street side, there is an original sliding board door on the far left and a later 20th-century sliding door on the far right, with three 3-light windows in between. The first floor has a large recessed painted name panel set in a raised brick surround, flanked by single loading doors. Above, there are three 4-light windows and single 2-light windows at both ends. All windows have recessed metal casements with glazing bars and rounded brick sills, with doors and windows set beneath ashlar lintels. The eaves are stepped in brick, and timber hoist arms are positioned above the first-floor doors.

The Brown Street side features a segmental-arched ground-floor door to the right and a pair of small windows on the first floor, one of which is beneath a segmental arch. The narrow smoking tower rises to three storeys and nearly spans the full width of the building. Its upper section has a row of nine small blocked ventilator openings, with a later additional 10th flue to the right. The top of the tower is adorned with ten truncated pyramidal caps made of rendered brick, with the nine on the left featuring dormer-style ventilators at the front and rear. All ten caps have projecting square-section brick tops, with seven supporting tall metal cowls above.

The interior was not inspected. This factory is one of a series of small fish processing and smoking factories in Grimsby, a location that was once one of the leading fishing centres in the world. It is noted as the better of the two surviving smoking houses with this specific design of smoking tower and cowling. The factory is also significant as part of a close group of smoking houses of various dates and designs located in the square bounded by Surtees Street, Brown Street, and Sidebottom Street.