John Bridge Woolstore, Heritage warehouse in Sydney Central Business District, Australia

The John Bridge Woolstore is a Victorian Free Classical former warehouse at 64 Harbour Street, with facades on Harbour and Factory streets. Projecting bands mark the storeys in orange-brown brickwork, cream bricks quoine the angles and window reveals, and red bricks form the arches. The ground-floor walls are exceptionally thick; the original cruciform cast-iron columns and timber girders are now displayed in the ground-floor restaurant at the south end.

Built in 1889 for John Bridge & Co, one of Australia's leading wool and grain firms, the warehouse was designed probably by William Pritchard or his son Arthur and erected by Stuart Bros. The Commonwealth Government acquired it in 1914 for a Postmaster-General's Department stores branch. In 1977 it became offices, and in 1989 the cast-iron and timber interior was demolished for hotel use.

The place tells the story of Sydney as a trading port and industrial hub during the 1800s. Its original purpose as a wool storage facility is still visible in how the space is designed and used today.

The building is now part of a hotel and can be viewed from outside, with the facade clearly visible from the street. It sits centrally near transportation hubs, making it easy to reach and combine with other city attractions.

The 1989 conversion gutted the seven internal levels and replaced them with a concrete structure. The only original structural elements still visible are re-positioned in the ground-floor restaurant at the south end: cruciform-section cast-iron columns with saddle-form capitals and stiffening rings, plus heavy timber girders carrying timber joists.