The former ladies toilets on Newcastle's High Bridge have been transformed into a tiny gin bar said to be the smallest in the UK.
Measuring just 11 square metres inside, the new bar called The Gin Closet will cater for up to 15 drinkers at one time when it opens on Friday, February 4.
Owner Steve Blair took on the venue nearly two years ago and created the intimate bar with a "speakeasy vibe" where visitors can enjoy a carefully-curated selection of different gins from around the world.
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It's the second unique venue that the 32-year-old entrepreneur has opened in the city centre after transforming the Bigg Market's underground Victorian toilets into wine and cocktail bar, WC Newcastle.
Steve, from County Durham, opened WC Newcastle around two years ago after embarking on career in property when he left the Royal Air Force.
Both the High Bridge and Bigg Market toilets were among the public loos closed down due to local authority budget cuts.
"I was searching for other WC's in Newcastle to find out some history about the gentlemen's and realised that a female one was available," Steve said.
"I put in an application to take it on to complement the gentlemen toilets and then, unfortunately, Covid hit and we were at a standstill."
He believes that the venue, situated next to the Kaltur restaurant on the cobbled city centre street, is the country's smallest gin bar - a title that had previously been claimed by The Tin of Sardines gin bar in Durham.
Due to its small size, only one or two people can be behind the bar, and drinkers can press a button on the wall to order their gins from their seats.
And for those wondering, it does actually have its own toilet.
The building, which is believed to date back to the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, also retains many of its original features, including tiled flooring and exposed brick walls.
"We have tried to maintain its character and complement the gentlemen's WC," Steve said.
"Hopefully it is a lovely extension of the gentlemen's toilet bar and another bit of history that can be unraveled in Newcastle.
"They are both such unique and historical properties and it's a great thing to have that little niche to have the male and female toilets.
"Both were around at a similar time and I wanted to uncover something that people have probably walked past a million times and not even known it was there."
The Gin Closet will open for the first time on Friday, February 4 at 4pm. It will then be open from Wednesday to Sunday each week.
The bar is accepting walk-ins only, although private group bookings can be made.
