The warehouse was built by the East India Company in two stages. The older part was erected in 1734-36 on ground purchased from Charles Gore, Moses Helbut, William Lethieullier and John Smith. The newer part was constructed in 1792 upon ground purchased from Matthew Smith and Thomas Stallard Peno...
The warehouse stood at the north end of French Ordinary Court and communicated with the Fenchurch Street warehouse. It was built in 1785-86 on the site of houses purchased by the East India Company in 1771 from Charles Gore and on ground purchased in 1785 from Lord Bateman and his lessee John Bond.
In 1804 the East India Company purchased a piece of freehold ground with a dwelling house in Church Row (formerly Magpie Alley), Fenchurch Street, from Eleazer Philip Salomons for £3,500. The house was auctioned in lots for £705 2s 5d soon after it was acquired and the materials were cleared from...
The warehouse was erected in 1795 and 1796. The freehold section of the building stood upon part of the ground purchased by the East India Company from William Bedford and others, Love Stuart Tulk, and Millicent Towse. The leasehold section stood upon the ground purchased from the Ironmongers' Co...
The warehouse was built in two stages: in 1787 on the site of the freehold portion of the old Navy Office, and in 1796 on the sites of the leasehold portion of the Navy Office and of an adjoining house purchased from Reverend Dr William Dobbin. The Navy Office was purchased...
Highlord's (or Hylord's) Court was situated in Crutched Friars, adjacent to the Fenchurch Street warehouse. The East India Company first considered the purchase of the property in 1793 in order to protect the warehouse from the risk of fire, but the terms offered to the Company were unsuitable. F...
In 1795 the East India Company purchased from Stephen Ludlow, William Sharp, John Hutchins and Jonathan Hutchins a piece of freehold ground on the north-east side of Northumberland Alley on which eleven old tenements stood. The price of £2,000 included payment for the unexpired term of a lease he...