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Liverpool Echo
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Olivia Williams

Latest look inside finished apartments at 'exclusive' Tobacco Warehouse development

Developers have released new images inside finished apartments at the Tobacco Warehouse development.

The four large dressed show apartments, a development by Stanley Dock Properties, are in the Grade II listed, Victorian warehouse overlooking the waters of Stanley Dock in the city.

The apartments have been designed to pay homage to The Beatles, with different rooms featuring specially-curated limited edition Beatles artwork.

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Developers said Tobacco Warehouse is being transformed into "the city’s most exclusive new residential address" providing 550 one-, two- and three-bedroom Manhattan loft-style apartments.

It included penthouses, complete with 100,000 sq ft of dock level commercial space and lifestyle amenities.

Tobacco Warehouse is the residential part of the £250m regeneration of Stanley Dock, built between 1848 and 1901, into a major leisure destination.

It includes the Titanic Hotel, based in the adjacent North Warehouse.

Tobacco Warehouse overlooking the waters of Stanley Dock in the city. (Stanley Dock Poperties)

The developers said in order to dress the Tobacco Warehouse show apartments with Beatles artwork, Stanley Dock Properties purchased limited edition pieces at a 2019 Beatles Exhibition that held at the Museum of Liverpool called ‘Double Fantasy – John & Yoko’.

The exhibition also included artwork from Yoko Ono’s own private collection, some of which had never been displayed before.

Stanley Dock Properties said when it was designing the apartments it "envisaged that each could provide a funky Manhattan style pad" for one of the Fab Four.

The Tobacco Warehouse show apartments feature iconic New York t-shirt photographs of John Lennon in Manhattan, which were taken in 1974 by photographer Bob Gruen.

Tobacco Warehouse overlooking the waters of Stanley Dock in the city. (Stanley Dock Properties)

The show apartment living rooms also display a series of psychedelic Beatles posters, which were created by Vanity Fair photographer Richard Avendon in 1967.

The psychedelic images helped launch The Beatles eighth studio album ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’.

Other Beatles images that appear throughout the show apartments include rare outtakes from a 1963 session with Vogue photographer Norman Parkinson, while The Beatles were recording their second album.

John Doherty, group creative director at Stanley Dock Properties said: “The apartments within the Victorian Tobacco Warehouse are very Manhattan loft in style with dramatic double height living spaces and industrial architectural features such as exposed brick walls, cast-iron columns and heritage style decorative metal staircases.

"Because the apartments are so rich in character and style we wanted to avoid having dressed show apartments that were bland and dull so we decided to use The Beatles as creative inspiration."

Tobacco Warehouse, originally built between 1898 and 1901, has a 14-storey façade with tall windows, ornate pediment, brick pilaster columns and lettering carved in brickwork and terracotta.

Between 2015 to 2021 work began to transform the warehouse and the building now features a range of departments in different sizes, developers said.

Apartments at Tobacco Warehouse are available priced from £235,000.

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