[5] These latter J & E Hall compressors remain inside the building today, and have been described as "the sole surviving example of this type of equipment".

[2] Furthermore, the building has been listed on the 'Heritage At Risk Register', managed by the English Heritage, an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government, since 2008.

[2] In March 2015, Grimsby residents suggested that the factory be covered to hide it from view during the upcoming World Seafood Congress event in September, with the rationale that the deteriorating building could denigrate the town's image.

[9] Graeme Bassett, secretary of the Great Grimsby Ice Factory Trust, suggested that the building could be covered temporarily or that scaffolding could be erected as a solution regarding concerns about the site being an eyesore.

[3][10] As of May 2014, the trust had plans to restore and renovate the site into a leisure complex that would include a pub, cinema and climbing wall.