Abandoned 1901 ruins of dockside buildings in the Liverpool Docklands awaiting proposed regeneration. The Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse Historical landmark is a grade II listed building and is the world's largest red brick warehouse. The Tobacco Warehouse is scheduled to be the £130m second phase of the Stanley Dock regeneration and feature apartments, a central courtyard and shops.
The Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse is a grade II listed building and is the world's largest brick warehouse. t is adjacent to the Stanley Dock, in Liverpool, England. Standing 125 feet (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. The 14 storey building spans across 36 acres (15 ha) 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 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 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
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