FORMER MACRAES SMOKE HOUSES

FORMER MACRAES SMOKE HOUSES, ESSEX STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297069
Date first listed:: 08-Nov-1993
List Entry Name:: FORMER MACRAES SMOKE HOUSES
Statutory Address:: FORMER MACRAES SMOKE HOUSES, ESSEX STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297069
Date first listed:: 08-Nov-1993
List Entry Name:: FORMER MACRAES SMOKE HOUSES
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER MACRAES SMOKE HOUSES, ESSEX STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER MACRAES SMOKE HOUSES, ESSEX STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: City of Kingston upon Hull (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TA 06542 27148

Details

KINGSTON UPON HULL

680-1/8/133 ESSEX STREET 08-NOV-93 (South side) FORMER MACRAES SMOKE HOUSES

II

Also Known As: CAWOODS FISH CURERS, ESSEX STREET

Also known as: Cawoods Fish Curers ESSEX STREET. Fish smoking houses and processing sheds, now disused. c1890, with minor C20 alterations. Brick with slate and corrrugated asbestos roofs. Tall windowless northern smoke house has a narrow longitudinal flue surrounded by a catwalk and guard rail, carrying 10 metal cowls with hoods and shaped vanes. Southern smoke house had 10 similar cowls, though only 7 survive intact, one has collapsed, all mounted directly on the ridge and surrounded by catwalk and guard rail. Between the smoke houses, a series of processing sheds and offices with north-light roofs. INTERIOR of the smoke houses retain their original kilns with fittings and original doors. These smoke houses are a type of characteristic special purpose building associated with the Hull fishing industry, which flourished c1880-1970.

Listing NGR: TA0654227148

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Legacy System number:: 387550
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.