£120m “super-restaurant” coming to Liverpool waterfront as regeneration continues

Stanley Dock Properties has been granted detailed planning consent from Liverpool City Council to transform the historic Grade II listed Victorian Hydraulic Pumphouse Station in Stanley Dock into Liverpool’s “finest waterfront restaurant’’.

The resultant venue is expected to become a 4,400 sq ft destination eatery able to seat up to 200 diners.

Part of the ongoing £250m regeneration of Stanley Dock into the city’s “most exclusive address”, providing hotel, restaurants and new homes, the designs for the new restaurant in the Pumphouse were devised by award-winning architectural practice Darmody Architecture.

The interior of the Pumphouse has four distinct spaces: an entrance hall, boiler room, accumulator tower and engine room. The new restaurant is part of the £120m next phase of works at Stanley Dock.

The main dining space will consist of the boiler room, incorporating a contemporary glazed extension, creating a “stunning” glass walled dining space with an 18.5 ft high glass ceiling overlooking the dock. Glazed doors will open onto an outside waterfront dining terrace.

Connecting the glazed extension and original brick boiler house is an inner atrium with a 23 ft high ceiling which will house dining and a cocktail bar. A galleried mezzanine floor will be installed in the boiler house to create a dining area with feature brick walls on the lower level and on the upper level a private dining space, lounge areas and guest cloakrooms/WCs.

The engine room will be transformed into another “spectacular” dining space with a 36 ft high ceiling with a new feature roof. The brick chimney and part of the boiler room will be converted into an open plan professional chef’s kitchen for the restaurant, visible to customers from the dining area, with the accumulator tower providing storage facilities.

Pat Power, director at Stanley Dock Properties, said: “Stanley Dock Properties are delighted to have been granted detailed planning consent by Liverpool City Council to restore and transform the Grade II listed historic Pumphouse at Stanley Dock into a new destination restaurant which we believe will become the finest waterfront eatery in the city.

“This restoration project is part of the regeneration of Stanley Dock into the most exclusive residential and leisure destination in Liverpool.”

The Pumphouse overlooks waters of the dock and is located adjacent to the historic North Warehouse (built in 1854-1855) which is now the 153 bed Titanic Hotel.

By Matthew Neville – Correspondent, Bdaily

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