Tobacco Warehouse

STANLEY DOCK, LIVERPOOL

The impressive Grade II listed Victorian Tobacco Warehouse, overlooking the waters of Stanley Dock in Liverpool, is being transformed into the city’s most exclusive new residential address.

Designed by renowned Liverpool architect Jesse Hartley of Royal Albert Dock fame, Stanley Dock, now a 7 acre central water feature, was originally opened in 1848 with three buildings designed around it comprising the North Warehouse (now the Titanic Hotel) and South Warehouse, both built in 1854-1855. Tobacco Warehouse was built in 1898-1901 and is the largest brick warehouse in the world. Designed by architect A. G. Lyster, Tobacco Warehouse has a floor area of 1.6 million square feet, and was built using 27 million bricks, 30,000 panes

of glass and 8,000 tonnes of steel girders. Between 1901 to 1985 the Tobacco Warehouse was used to store rum and tobacco (up to 60,000 barrels) with the ground floor used as a Sunday market between 1985 to 2011, with the surrounding warehouses operational up until 2013. During WWII Tobacco Warehouse was converted into a US military base responsible for the storage and shipment of supplies to the US army based in the UK preparing for the D-Day landings. One of the floors was turned into a US field hospital and another stored valuable goods captured from Nazis ships. On 8th November 1942 American First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt had a detailed inspection tour of Tobacco Warehouse. In recent times Tobacco Warehouse and Stanley Dock have been used as a historical set for famous TV and Hollywood film productions including Sherlock Holmes (2009), David Copperfield (2000), Captain America (2011) and Peaky Blinders (2012 and 2014). The transformation of Stanley Dock into a leading residential and leisure destination began in 2010 with the purchase of the dock and warehouses by Stanley Dock Properties. The North Warehouse was converted into the 153 bed Titanic Hotel in 2013-2014 and between 2015-2021 work commenced to transform the Tobacco Warehouse into one of Liverpool’s leading residential addresses. As one of the most architecturally and historically important buildings on the Liverpool waterfront, Tobacco

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The voluminous interiors have generous ceiling heights and a bright and open ambience with natural light cascading in through the tall windows. During the restoration programme for Tobacco Warehouse hundreds of local builders carefully cleaned the brickwork, replicated the original windows and inside created a beautiful collection of new loft style apartments whilst preserving industrial architectural features such as exposed brick walls, cast-iron columns and generous ceiling heights.

Ready for immediate occupation the apartments for sale comprise one, two and three bedroom duplex apartments and on the top floor two bedroom penthouses that open onto private wrap around terraces. All the duplex apartments have dramatic double-height living rooms and upper mezzanine levels, providing a sense of volume and light rarely seen in Liverpool. Each offer a combination of city, river, dock and/or courtyard views. Each duplex has an open plan fully fitted kitchen with integrated appliances and two or more fully fitted luxury bathrooms with full height mosaic tiles and ceramic floor tiles. The principal bedroom suites have an ensuite bathroom and space for wardrobes and dressing. Tobacco Warehouse is the residential part of the £250 million (completed value) regeneration of Stanley Dock into a leading leisure destination, including the Titanic Hotel, created in 2013-14 from the adjacent North Warehouse, and now one of Liverpool’s most luxurious hotels with a restaurant/grill, cocktail bar and health club. There are plans for the dock’s Pump House to be converted into a restaurant and cocktail bar and the South Warehouse to be converted into a 99 bed Apart-Hotel with a restaurant and health club.

The current and planned amenities at Stanley Dock will provide residents of Tobacco Warehouse with an outstanding range of lifestyle facilities and places to entertain, exercise and relax on their doorstep, Liverpool’s premier residential and lifestyle address.

NB: All images on pages 91/92 are virtually dressed.