Bacon Smokehouse

The Bacon Smokehouse, built in 1877 by Charles Bell for ER Parker, a provisions merchant, is a rectangular building constructed of yellow stock brick with a slate roof and a brick chimney stack. It occupies the north-eastern side of a courtyard behind 44-46 St. John Street. The building is two stories high and enclosed on three sides by adjacent structures. The ground floor has four sets of double doors. An iron walkway provides access to the first floor, where there are porthole windows fitted with sliding circular iron smoke-dampening shutters, and floor-level windows with iron shutters. The pitched slate roof is topped with louvred ventilation cupolas. The interior has not been inspected, and the building was converted to offices in the late 20th century.