Fish smoking factory (Quality Fish Company)

The Quality Fish Company is a fish processing and smoking factory located in Grimsby, built in the late 19th century. It features yellow brick construction with red brick dressings, with some parts colourwashed and rendered. The lower section has a concrete tiled roof, while the smoking tower is topped with corrugated metal roofs. The factory faces Henderson Street at the front and has its rear on Brown Street.

The front elevation on Henderson Street has a gable and consists of two low storeys on the right, each with a single opening under a lean-to roof. To the left, the smoking tower rises to three storeys. The ground floor is rendered and has a boarded door. There are red brick quoins on the right side above. A 20th-century wooden staircase leads to a first-floor boarded door beneath a timber lintel, with a projecting hoist arm and a ventilator hatch above that has a top-hung flap. The narrow smoking tower on the left has quoins on the right, a narrow lean-to on the left, and a taller gabled section with continuous openings on the left and right returns, featuring brick sills and rows of four centrally-pivoted wooden ventilator hatches.

The Brown Street front has a two-storey gabled section with two first-floor windows, and the smoking tower is set back to the right. The ground floor is rendered with a single 20th-century casement window, while the first floor is colourwashed and has a pair of cross windows with sills beneath a continuous lintel.

The interior has not been inspected. This factory is one of a series of small fish processing and smoking factories in Grimsby, which was once a leading fishing centre globally. It is notable as the only surviving example of the smaller type of fish-smoking factories that were once common in Grimsby, and it features a unique tower design. Additionally, it is part of a close group of smoking houses of various dates and designs within the area bounded by Surtees Street, Brown Street, and Sidebottom Street.