Bixteth St
Liverpool L3 9LQ
Cotton Exchange Building · Office Property For Lease · 8,248 SF

The Cotton Exchange opened in 1906 and was once the home to Liverpool’s thriving cotton industry. There are reminders of its intriguing history to be found throughout the building, from the cotton emblems on Edmund Street to the old granite columns within some of the office spaces. It acted as the centre of the cotton trading world, with telephones and direct cables stretching as far afield as New York, Bremen and Bombay. The original ornate facade of the building was removed in the late 1960’s to make room for Cotton House. This was replaced with new offices and resulted in the old trading hall being split into two floors. One part has recently been sympathetically transformed into the new home of Morecrofts Solicitors and the other section of the colonnade, which once surrounded the trading floor, with its Norwegian Larvikite columns will soon become home to a restaurant. The statues that once sat proudly above the façade can still be found around the building. Two of them, Navigation and Commerce, are now taking pride of place in the yard at the front of the Morecrofts office and a Portland Stone statue of Liverpool’s The River Mersey can be found on Old Hall Street. Everywhere we look we find a new feature that has been hidden and lost over the years. So, floor by floor and room by room we are bringing the old Cotton Exchange back to life.