Apartment of the week: A spacious city pad inside the 100-year-old Finger Wharf

It’s so quiet inside the 100-year-old Finger Wharf it’s difficult to believe the complex is home to about 300 apartments and 100 hotel rooms.

Save for the music drifting from Hotel Ovolo’s Lo Lounge cafe/bar and one or two suited gents strolling past, the cavernous interior of the world’s longest timber-piled wharf is peacefully empty.

This means Domain has plenty of time and space to peer skywards at the trussed, skylit ceiling and examine the goods conveyers preserved from the wharf’s time as a wool storage facility.

Saved from demolition in the early 1990s by forward-thinking locals, the conversion of the wharf from derelict structure to its current incarnation was completed in 2000 and it has since thrived as a destination in its own right.

A collection of bars and restaurants runs the length of the western promenade, which adjoins a private marina, home to cruisers and yachts with names like Oscar, Kokomo and La Carolina.

The apartments range from palatial digs at the northern-most tip of the wharf which over the years have attracted high-flyers including Russell Crowe, Delta Goodrem and John Laws to the more modest but very charming one-bedders like this one.

Set on the fifth-floor and facing west towards the city and Botanic Gardens, the property has intimate views of the marina through a bank of low-set windows. A raked ceiling sports two more windows capturing some northern sunshine.

An open-tread timber stairwell provides access to the loft bedroom which has a generous walk-in wardrobe and oversize en suite with a separate shower and bath and a twin vanity.

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Back at entry level, the stone-topped kitchen features integrated Bosch appliances and a gas cooktop. There’s room for dining and living spaces plus a study zone under the stairs. A guest w/c includes integrated laundry facilities.

Agent Noel Jenkins says the Finger Wharf appeals to a wide demographic, from retirees to city workers and young families. Ranked as one of Sydney’s most walker-friendly suburbs, Woolloomooloo is bordered by the Domain, Kings Cross and Potts Point and gazes over the Australian Navy’s longstanding naval base Garden Island.

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