NHER 29038 (Building record) - Trinity Place Fishworks

Trinity Place Fishworks.

December 1976. Listed Grade II*.

Important surviving early 19th-century fish curing house built against town wall (NHER 4294).
At south end, former stables and hayloft; inserted ships masts through two storeys. Central section is gutting house with courtyard; buildings of brick, flint and timber. Smoke chambers, brine tanks and well.
Roof includes ships' timbers.
North end is a smoke house, tall and single storeyed with five smoke bays. Evidence of earlier buildings on site. The interiors are lit from the arrowslits in the town walls.
Two medieval gargoyles reused.
One of only four remaining fishworks, of of eighty eight formerly in town.
Now used as tourist attraction/pottery/café.
For further details see (S1). Upgraded to II* 1992
E. Rose (NLA), 13 July 1992.

Excerpt of current Listing Description:
"Fish curing works, now pottery. Early 19th century. Built against town walls of 1285-1295 to east. Brick and flint with timber interior partitioning. Pantile roofs. Three distinct elements.
EXTERIOR: Two-storey southern range is former stables with hay-loft over. A lean-to brick and pantiled outbuilding against wall projecting west to street front forms a courtyard. Central door under sloping hood...East wall of medieval date with two and to north end remains of a third, 13th-century brick and flint buttresses. One inserted ship's mast rises through both storeys. Central range contains gutting house with a courtyard, the yard formed by weatherboarded lean-to buildings with brick end-gables. Main block itself leans against medieval town walls. South lean-to was sales office with a central passage to stable yard incorporating ledger room. North lean-to was storage area now containing pottery kilns. Upper floor retains passage with five doors into smoke chambers and lit through one late 13th-century splayed lancet at east end. West front of gutting house weatherboarded with 20th-century ground-floor window and doorway.
INTERIOR: now a coffee shop (ground floor) and a pottery shop (first floor). Original gutting house retains well and subterranean brine tanks. Rafter and purlin roof with tie beams and much timber partitioning including salvaged marine timbers.
North range is smokehouse. Brick with pantiled gabled roof. Tall, single-storeyed. Plain gabled west side. East side contiguous with town walls with flint and brick gable-head. Roof ridge with 12 smoke louvres. Smoke house has five double smoke bays entered through one timber door to ground floor. Brick dado carries timber racks and loves extending to roof. Brick floor. Evidence of earlier brick and flint structure on site. Five loading doors at first-floor level entered from lean-to to south. Continuous roof of common rafters and continuous purlins. East bay without racks and loves, its east wall 13th-century and lit through a splayed lancet. Two gargoyles, probably from house of the Blackfriars [NHER 4266]."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
P. Watkins (HES), 14 March 2022.