Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse
Coordinates: 53°25′16″N 2°59′55″W / 53.4210°N 2.9985°W
| Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse | |
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| General information | |
| Town or city | Liverpool |
| Country |  England |
| Construction started | 1900 |
| Completed | 1901 |
| Height | 125 foot (38 m) |
| Technical details | |
| Size | 36 acres (150,000 m2) |
| Design and construction | |
| Client | Mersey Docks Estates |
| Architect | A.G. Lyster |
Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse, (Stanley Dock, Liverpool, England) is a grade II listed building and is the world's largest brick warehouse.[1][2][3] Standing 125 foot (38 m) high, the building was at the time of its construction in 1901, claimed to be the world's largest building in terms of area.[2][4][5] The 14 storey building spans across 36 acres (150,000 m2) and its construction used 27 million bricks, 30,000 panes of glass and 8,000 tons of steel.[1][5]
The overall design is by A.G. Lyster, the Dock Engineer, but Arthur Berrington almost certainly played a part. The warehouse was a late addition to the Stanley Dock complex and was built on land reclaimed from the dock. Stanley Dock is accessible from the dock system or by barge from the Leeds and Liverpool Canal which enters under Great Howard Street bridge.
With the decline of trade going through Liverpool, the warehouse fell into disuse in the 1980s and gradually into disrepair. More recently the building has featured in the Stop the Rot conservation campaign by the Liverpool Echo newspaper. Part of the ground floor of the warehouse is used for the Sunday Heritage Market.
Various plans have been unveiled for the Tobacco Warehouse to be redeveloped into several hundred apartments as part of a larger development of the whole Stanley Dock site. The plans involve hollowing out the centre of the warehouse to create a garden-filled courtyard.[6][7][8]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "The Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse". Liverpool World Heritage. http://www.liverpoolworldheritage.com/visitingthewhs/areas/stanleydock/tobaccowarehouse.asp. Retrieved 12 April 2008.
- ^ a b "Liverpool". World Heritage Site. http://www.worldheritagesite.org/sites/liverpool.html. Retrieved 12 April 2008.
- ^ "Trading Places: A History of Liverpool Docks (Stanley Dock)". Liverpool Museums. http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/docks/access/theme10.html#sta. Retrieved 12 April 2008.
- ^ "Liverpool Docks". timbosliverpool.co.uk. http://www.timbosliverpool.co.uk/docks/. Retrieved 12 April 2008.
- ^ a b Nicholls, Robert (2008). Curiosities of Merseyside. The History Press.
- ^ "Stanley Dock transformed". Liverpool Echo. 27 March 2007. http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/liverpool-campaigns/regeneration-of-liverpool/2007/03/27/stanley-dock-transformed-100252-18814405/. Retrieved 12 April 2008.[dead link]
- ^ "£100m plan for tobacco building". Liverpool Echo. 6 September 2010. http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/capital-of-culture/capital-of-culture-liverpool-news/2003/12/08/100m-plan-for-tobacco-building-100252-13704568/.
- ^ "Dock market fear for jobs". Liverpool Echo. 6 September 2010. http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news//tm_headline=dock-market-fear-for-jobs&method=full&objectid=18817453&siteid=50061-name_page.html.
[edit] External links
- Stop the Rot campaign
- Details from listed building database (359563) . Images of England. English Heritage.
- The Stanley Dock Conservation Area
- Birdseye view of the Stanley Dock warehouses
- Liverpool North Docks views
- Photographs of Stanley Dock
- Inside The Tobacco Warehouse
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