Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse

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name=Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse


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architect=A.G. Lyster
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Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse, (Stanley Dock, Liverpool, England) is a grade II listed building and is the world's largest brick warehouse.citeweb|url=http://www.liverpoolworldheritage.com/visitingthewhs/areas/stanleydock/tobaccowarehouse.asp|title=The Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse|work=Liverpool World Heritage|accessdate=12 April|accessyear=2008] citeweb|url=http://www.worldheritagesite.org/sites/liverpool.html|title=Liverpool|work=World Heritage Site|accessdate=12 April|accessyear=2008] [citeweb|url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/docks/access/theme10.html#sta|title=Trading Places: A History of Liverpool Docks (Stanley Dock)|work=Liverpool Museums|accessdate=12 April|accessyear=2008]

At the time of its construction in 1901, it was claimed to be the world's largest building in terms of area. [citeweb|url=http://www.timbosliverpool.co.uk/docks/ |title=Liverpool Docks|work=timbosliverpool.co.uk|accessdate=12 April|accessyear=2008] The 14 storey building spans across 26 acres and its construction used 27 million bricks, 30,000 panes of glass and 8,000 tons of steel.

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 on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal which enteredclarifyme under 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.

As of March 2007, plans have been unveiled for the Tobacco Warehouse to be redeveloped into 650 duplex apartments as part of a larger development of the whole Stanley Dock site. The plans involve digging out the centre of the warehouse to create a garden-filled courtyard. [citeweb|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/liverpool-campaigns/regeneration-of-liverpool/2007/03/27/stanley-dock-transformed-100252-18814405/ |title=Stanley Dock transformed|work=Liverpool Echo|date=27 March 2007|accessdate=12 April|accessyear=2008]

References

External links

* [http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/liverpoolecho/campaigns/stoptherot/ Stop the Rot campaign]
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* [http://www.liverpoolworldheritage.com/stanleydock.asp The Stanley Dock Conservation Area]
* [http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/bigpic/bigpics21.htm Birdseye view of the Stanley Dock warehouses]
* [http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/northdocks/index.html Liverpool North Docks views]
* [http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/ll/ll85.htm Photographs of Stanley Dock]
* [http://www.level-two.co.uk/report.php?locname=tobacco Inside The Tobacco Warehouse]