Russell Fish Processing And Smoking Factory (Russell Fish Curing Company Limited)

This is a fish processing and smoking factory, built in the early 20th century and subsequently altered. It is constructed of yellow and red brick, with rendered and colourwashed sections to the front and right return. The front has a concrete tile roof, while the rear and smoking tower have a sheet asbestos roof. The building is rectangular, featuring a central smoking tower.

The factory is two storeys and has an attic. The street front has five first-floor openings. There is an entrance on the right gable end. The street front facade features four windows with segmental heads and glazing bars, along with three smaller segmental-headed casements to the right. The first floor mirrors the ground floor, featuring four windows, three with four panes and one with nine panes. Stepped eaves are present, with a roof stack to the right. A narrow, elongated central smoking tower rises from the roof apex, incorporating six wooden louvred openings and brick gable ends.

The right return displays a ground-floor sliding door to the left of centre. To the left of this is a blocked door with a first-floor loading door above, set within a segmental arch, and a timber hoist arm. Further right is a segmental-arched window. A vertical series of loading doors is located to the far right; the ground-floor one is blocked with an inserted three-light window beneath a timber lintel, the first floor has a board door beneath a segmental arch, and the second floor has a narrower board door with a stone sill. There are three first-floor windows, one with four panes, the others with nine panes, all beneath segmental arches. A small first-floor hatch is located to the far right.

The rear of the building features a flat-roofed ground-floor addition with a sliding board door and five windows; the main range has six first-floor segmental-arched windows similar to those on the front. The interior remains uninspected.

The factory is included on the list as the best and most original example of a group of fish processing and smoking factories built in Riby Street, near Grimsby Fish Docks, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a period when Grimsby was a leading fishing centre. The building is still in use and provides a contrast with other, listed smoking-houses within the docks.