NHER 55685 (Building record) - Fishwharf Salt Stores

Surveyed in 1972, before the remaining store buildings were demolished. Originally this plot of land had an icehouse and 3 salt stores. The southernmost building is recorded in the local register for corporate property in 1871 as being leased to a salt and fish merchant. All 4 buildings are recorded in 1885 on the 1st edition 1 inch ordnance survey map (S1). The buildings are so close together that on the 1 inch scale they are drawn as one building. The middle buildings (known as yards 61 and 62) are likely as old as the southern one. They too were documented as being salt stores, but after 1949 they were marked "fish-gutting buildings" and were recently used as cement stores. The buildings were wooden with pantile roofs lined on the inside with reeds. Organic material being able to resist the corrosive qualities of salt. The icehouse was not surveyed as it had been previously demolished. It is shown on the 1885 ordnance survey map but not on the 1949, so it must have been demolished at some point in between.
See (S2).
W. Arnold (HES), 15 June 2011.