The Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse is a grade II listed building and is the world's largest brick warehouse, with a net floor area of 1.6 million square feet (148,644 square metres). It is adjacent to the Stanley Dock, in Liverpool, England. Standing high, the building was, at the time of its construction in 1901, claimed to be the world's largest building in terms of area. The 14 storey building spans across and its construction used 27 million bricks, 30,000 panes of glass and 8,000 tons of steel.
In 2014, Stanley Dock Properties, under the auspices of the Irish company who had previously transformed Belfast's Titanic Quarter, Harcourt Developments, put forward a proposal for the warehouse to be converted into 550 apartments accompanied by businesses, cafes and retail outlets on the ground floor.
Between 2015–2021, Tobacco Warehouse was redeveloped into several hundred apartments as part of a larger development of the whole Stanley Dock site. The plans involved hollowing out the centre of the warehouse to create a garden-filled courtyard and the building welcomed its first residents in 2021.
The complex was listed as one of the key areas of Liverpool City Council's Ten Streets regeneration project in 2017.
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- Stop the Rot campaign
- The Stanley Dock Conservation Area
- Liverpool North Docks views
- Photographs of Stanley Dock
- Tobacco Warehouse on Wayback Machine